 Welcome to Shady Hills, Florida, where death is the beginning and pain is the only true Art… Harold Stoe was a proud Marine until an insurgent’s bullet relegated him to a wheelchair. Now the only things he’s proud of are quitting alcohol and raising his sixteen-year-old son, Dale. But there is an infernal rhythm, beating like a diseased heart from the hollow behind his home. An aberration known as The Architect has finished his masterpiece: A god which slumbers beneath the hollow, hell-bent on changing the world into its own image. As the body count rises and the neighborhood residents change into mindless, shambling horrors, Harold and his former lover, Mary, begin their harrowing journey into the world within the hollow. If they fail, the hollow will expand to infinity. Every living being will be stripped of flesh and muscle, their nerves wrapped tightly around ribcages, so The Architect can play his sick music through them loud enough to swallow what gives them life: The last vestiges of a dying star. I loved this horror book. The opening sentence “Making deals with the dead had to stop” had me hooked right away. The author did a great job with setting and description at the beginning. I could picture the bad conditions Harold and his neighbors lived in very vividly. My favorite lines: 1) Pain is just one of my hobbies. A hobby the world will soon know. 2) No one leaves. Never has. Never will. 3) Everything went dark as they descended like an elevator with its wires cut.  I appreciated that the plot was pretty fast paced. There weren’t any dull moments in the book, but I wished the author would have slowed down at certain parts, especially towards the end. It was hard to get a glimpse of how the main character, Harold, was feeling because there was mostly action from the characters without any self-reflection. And within a scene, a character would magically appear to help out. I would have liked to see where they came from and a description (like in the beginning) to see how hurt the characters were. Dialogue-heavy books are my favorite, so I really enjoyed Hollow Heart. I could picture this as a horror or sci-fi movie. I appreciated that the author wasn’t afraid to make some of his characters unlikeable. It made them feel more real and made me root for them to change by the end of the book, especially Harold with his son. I wanted them to love and support each other. Did they? You’ll have to read to find out. I recommend this book to read. 5/5 stars Keep smiling, Yawatta Hosby   Comments are closed.
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