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Jessica Verday

Auteur de The Hollow

10+ oeuvres 1,922 utilisateurs 96 critiques 5 Favoris

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Œuvres de Jessica Verday

The Hollow (2009) 896 exemplaires
The Haunted (2010) 462 exemplaires
The Hidden (2011) 314 exemplaires
Of Monsters and Madness (2014) 124 exemplaires
The Beautiful and the Damned (2013) 74 exemplaires
The First Time (2011) — Directeur de publication — 31 exemplaires
Flesh Which Is Not Flesh 11 exemplaires
Of Phantoms and Fury (2015) 4 exemplaires
Sombras (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2011) 3 exemplaires

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Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions (2011) — Contributeur — 340 exemplaires

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Date de naissance
20th Century
Sexe
female
Nationalité
USA
Lieu de naissance
Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA

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In my review for The Hollow I was a little irritated by Abbey's constant dramatics and I hoped that after some time she'd level out in The Haunted. Thankfully I can report she has! This isn't to say she's put it all behind her, far from it, but she's learned to focus on what is important and what she can do to be proactive. I appreciated that character growth and acknowledgment that Abbey was acting all shades of melodrama last book.

We open to Abbey returning and forcing herself to put Caspian--and what happened in the last book--behind her to look towards her dream of opening a perfume shop. She definitely comes off as stronger and more decisive this book and I can't really fault her for trying to force Caspian to the backburner. Their relationship isn't bound for healthiness after all.

We learn about the revenants (which seems to be a favorite word for what essentially is a zombie--that's right return from the dead? Its a zombie) and let me just say I think Abbey would have preferred never to meet Vincent. The guy is...malevolent. Truthfully he is. He's also astoundingly good at hitting weak points with all the force of a ten ton hammer. He makes several revelations to Abbey in the last few pages that kind of made me go 'oh no...' and feel so badly for Abbey. And made me start to worry she'd slip into bad habits of guilt again. Even after he corrects her (understandably) mistaken assumption about his motives he still smiles. He does confirm some suspicions I had concerning the events leading up to Kristen's death, as well as the foundation for Caspian and Abbey's relationship.

The only problem with The Haunted is that its a middle book of a trilogy, so it does have plot lag. Verday has to keep the balance between giving us information and not giving us it all, which straggles throughout much of the book. Details come in fit and spurts, with the bulk of it being tossed into the ending. This book is moreso a build up of the relationship Abbey and Caspian have and of Abbey finding her path once more.
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lexilewords | 16 autres critiques | Dec 28, 2023 |
As a child one of my favorite halloween traditions was to bust out my VHS of disney's 'Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and watch it. Endlessly. Until I could repeat practically the entire dialogue. Johnny Depp's movie, with Christina Ricci and Miranda Richardson, also became a staple (can you imagine a better Headless Horseman than Christopher Walken? I surely can't). Heck I've even watched the very, very cheesy 'The Hollow' movie because it was based on the Legend.

So of course I wanted to read The Hollow. Unfortunately what I was expecting and what I read were a little different. I was expecting a dark, menacing sort of story; the blurb promises as much. What I actually read was certainly dark in places, but by in large it was more melodramatic than menacing.

Abbey's tortured feelings are understandable, but her penchant for letting them override every other thought became a little irritating. We know you are torn up about what happened to Kristen, please do something about it! In contrast I actually liked Caspain and thought he showed a lot of patience and forbearance with Abbey. Despite the mystery surrounding him he came off as a regular guy. Maybe someone you'd find cute, but would wonder about more often than talk to.

My only real problem with the book centered around the lack of Sleepy Hollow-ness. Verday would hint at something, but the follow through is almost non-existent. Partially that may be because this is the first in a trilogy, so she doesn't want to put all her eggs in one basket, but on the other hand she holds back too much. Especially considering Abbey (and Kristen)'s strange fascination with the legend.

In the end while this wasn't the book I thought it would be, it was a book I enjoyed reading and I look forward to the sequel, The Haunted, with anticipation that there will be more about Sleepy Hollow and less about 'its all my faaauuuulllllt' from Abbey.
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lexilewords | 46 autres critiques | Dec 28, 2023 |
This book was good, however in the end the reader is told that Caspian is a ghost....
 
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AnaCarter | 46 autres critiques | Feb 14, 2023 |
This entire book felt like a prologue. Boring.
 
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serru | 46 autres critiques | Oct 6, 2022 |

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