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HOUSE OF HOLLOW

Krystal Sutherland

A dark, twisty modern fairytale where three sisters discover they are not exactly all that they seem and evil things really do go bump in the night..
Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month a later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. And they're changing. First, their dark hair turned white. Then, their blue eyes slowly turned black. They have insatiable appetites yet never gain weight. People find them disturbingly intoxicating, unbearably beautiful, and inexplicably dangerous. But now, ten years later, seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow is doing all she can to fit in and graduate high school on time - something her two famously glamourous globe-trotting older sisters, Grey and Vivi, never managed to do. But when Grey goes missing, leaving behind bizarre clues, Iris and Vivi are left to trace her last few days. They aren't the only ones looking for her though. As they brush against the supernatural they realize that the story they've been told about their past is unraveling and the world that returned them seemingly unharmed ten years ago, might just be calling them home. Krystal Sutherland's first novel, Our Chemical Hearts, was published in over 20 countries and made the American Booksellers Association's Indie Next List in 2016. The film adaptation, pro- duced by Amazon Studios, stars Lili Reinhart (Riverdale) and Austin Abrams (Euphoria); Suth- erland served as an executive producer on the project. Her second novel, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares, has been optioned for adaptation by Yellow Bird. Originally from Austral- ia, she has lived on four continents and currently calls London home.
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Published 2021-04-06 by G.P. Putnam's Sons

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Filled with evocative detail, Sutherland's dark fantasy teems with eerie atmosphere... [in] Sutherland's carefully crafted fantasy world. Readers who are delighted by stories of the uncanny... will find themselves enchanted.

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Krystal Sutherland's HOUSE OF HOLLOW debuts this week on the NYT Bestseller list at # 10!

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This dark, deliciously twisted novel has everything you could hope for as a reader - a brilliant concept, glamorous characters with secrets to hide, immersive world-building, and some of the finest writing I've seen in YA fiction. I'll put it like this - I am obsessed with House of Hollow.

Sutherland keeps this haunting, contemporary fairy tale poised on the edge of gorgeous and gruesome, with visceral descriptions of sensual yet menacing magic hidden in the everyday... Hand this to your Nova Ren Suma and Melissa Albert fans.

...The ending manages to be both horrific and heartbreaking, and fans of Stewart's The Sacrifice Box or Barraclough's Long Lankin will appreciate the book's lingering chill.

Hand this to your readers who love Holly Black books and dark twisted fairytales. This high speed ride will catapult readers to an end many may see coming, but which is nevertheless shocking when it finally arrives.

This is slow-burn horror with imagery steeped in the senses... and Sutherland maximizes tension by playing into familiar tropes and then tearing away from them... The ending manages to be both horrific and heartbreaking... [with a] lingering chill.

Dark and delicious, House of Hollow hums with malice and mystery. I devoured it whole.

...The pervasive feeling of dread builds to a shocking twist. A lush and darkly twisted modern fairy tale. Read more...

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In House of Hollow, Krystal Sutherland turns her razor-sharp imagination to new horizons and proves, once again, that words blossom at her command. This story will steal up your spine, slip beneath your skin, and stick to you like honey.

Wonderfully creepy and full of unnerving supernatural flourishes.

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ANZ: Penguin Australia; UK: Hot Key (Bonniers) ; Brazil: Galera Record ; Bulgaria: Enthusiast ; Czech: Euromedia ; French: Editions Rageot ; Greek: Dioptra ; Hungarian: Maxim ; Italy: Rizzoli ; Polish: Poznanskie ; Romanian: Storia Books ; Russian: AST ; Slovak: Pandora ; Spanish/Mexico: Oceano

Alive with lush language and a dark fairy tale feel, this is a compelling readalike for lovers of Holly Black's many wonderful fair folk standalones and series. Read more...

[A] bewitching book... Sutherland's fertile imagination makes this book a deep dive into the intricacies of family, friends, and personal history.

Stepping nimbly among the liminal spaces and eerie real-world haunts of our heroine's cipher-sister, this haunting modern fairy tale will wrap you up like a glittering fog, before going for your throat.

An intoxicating, gorgeously grotesque fever dream full of the impossible stench of carrion flowers, the allure of haunted stairways in the woods and doors leading nowhere. A beautifully crafted, addictively dark fairy tale with horns!

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