The Hollow People
Brian Keaney
4/5 STARS
4/5 STARS
Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
I picked this book up from a local
thrift store on a fluke – and boy do I wish I had seen the entire
trilogy there!
The book is about two teenagers – Bea
and Dante:
Bea is the daughter of two doctors on
the island asylum of Tarnagar, in Gehenna. Her coming of age ceremony
is approaching, where she will be given Ichor for the first time and
her dreams will stop.
Dante is the lowliest kitchen boys –
born to an inmate of the asylum and treated more poorly than dirt.
He's already had his coming of age ceremony, but his dreams
continued.
Keaney slips bits and parts of this dystopian world slowly in as you read. I found myself craving to know
more about this strange world and the characters that live in it. A
mad Leader (who reminded me of Kim Jong Il), strange drugs and an
entire country of hollow people – too empty to make their own
decisions.
The world is not what it originally
seems in this atmospheric novel. The plot draws you inwards, the
writing is lovely and the characters are interesting.
The downside is that it's only 223
pages long, with two sequels. I honestly think that all 3 books could
have been told in the same novel, cutting down on the cost for
readers. I do wish it had been longer, but look forward to reading
the other two books in the trilogy.
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