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.” - School Library Journal “Wonderfully creepy and full of unnerving supernatural flourishes.” - PopSugar lingering chill.” - The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, starred review The ending manages to be both horrific and heartbreaking.

and Sutherland maximizes tension by playing into familiar tropes and then tearing away from them. “This is slow-burn horror with imagery steeped in the senses. Krystal Sutherland’s latest novel is a dark and twisty modern-day fairytale that expertly melds the fantastical with the real as the Hollow sisters discover just how much horror can lie beneath the surface.Ī 2022 Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the YearĪ 2022 International Thriller Writer Award FinalistĪ 2021 New York Public Library Best Book Pick As they brush against the supernatural, they realise that the story they’ve been told about their past is unravelling and the world that returned them seemingly unharmed ten years ago, might just be calling them home.

They aren’t the only ones looking for her. But when Grey goes missing, leaving behind only bizarre clues, Iris and Vivi are left to trace her last few days. Now, ten years later, seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow is doing all she can to fit in and graduate high school – something her two famously glamorous globe-trotting older sisters, Grey and Vivi, never managed to do. People find them disturbingly intoxicating, unbearably beautiful and inexplicably dangerous. Then, their blue eyes slowly turned black. 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. Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. 'Stepping nimbly among the liminal spaces and eerie real-world haunts of our heroine’s cipher-sister, this haunting modern fairytale will wrap you up like a glittering fog, before going for your throat.’ Melissa Albert, author of The Hazel Wood I’ll put it like this – I am obsessed with House of Hollow.’ Louise O'Neill, author of Printz Honor Book, Asking For It

'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.

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland