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The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
3.5
adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
π‘·π’“π’‚π’š π‘»π’‰π’†π’š 𝑨𝒓𝒆 π‘―π’–π’π’ˆπ’“π’š

This made my brain hurtπŸ˜… I loved the story, but had such a hard time wrapping my mind around anything that went on in this book other than the small explanation at the end. Which, don't get me wrong, made sense, but I don't know... I wanted more of an explanation or more reasoning for what the Willow World was. Maybe a hallway? And each door opens into another world/universe, but then there are also different worlds/universes above and below the hallway that that hall can't access? It's insaaaaane!🫠

β€œπ’€π’π’–β€™π’“π’† 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 π’•π’†π’†π’π’”π’Šπ’†π’”π’• π’ƒπ’Šπ’• π’„π’–π’“π’Šπ’π’–π’”?” ... β€œπ‘°β€™π’Ž π’Šπ’π’„π’“π’†π’…π’Šπ’ƒπ’π’š π’„π’–π’“π’Šπ’π’–π’”! 𝑰’𝒗𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓 π’Žπ’π’—π’Šπ’†π’”!”

I enjoyed the characters. Uncle Earl is the crazy uncle everyone secretly wants lol. He was so kind, loving, and caring to everyone. Simon is the best friend who is always down for your insane, get you in trouble shitπŸ˜‚ And Kara (Carrot) is a great FMC. She takes all the messes up things thrown at her on stride, while internally freaking the hell out. 

𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒐𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒕 π’π’Šπ’•π’•π’†π’“, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 π’Šπ’ 𝒐𝒏𝒆 π’…π’‚π’š π’˜π’‚π’” π’‚π’”π’Œπ’Šπ’π’ˆ 𝒕𝒐𝒐 π’Žπ’–π’„π’‰.

The main reason this one was a 3.5 instead of 4 for me is the middle. The beginning had me hooked and I was ready to devour it, and did. Until around page 150 when it died down. The middle had a few interesting parts, but was a lot slower paced and I felt like I was dragging reading it. The ending picked up though and I can confidently say that I will never own a piece a taxidermy in my life😭

𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 π’˜π’π’Œπ’†, π’•π’‰π’†π’š π’˜π’π’Œπ’† 𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 π’Žπ’‚π’π’š π’šπ’†π’‚π’“π’”.