Goodreads blurb:
When Abbey’s best friend, Kristen, vanishes at the bridge near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, everyone else is all too quick to accept that Kristen is dead and rumors fly that her death was no accident. Abbey goes through the motions of mourning her best friend, but privately, she refuses to believe that Kristen is really gone. Then she meets Caspian, the gorgeous and mysterious boy who shows up out of nowhere at Kristen’s funeral, and keeps reappearing in Abbey’s life. Caspian clearly has secrets of his own, but he’s the only person who makes Abbey feel normal again…but also special.
Just when Abbey starts to feel that she might survive all this, she learns a secret that makes her question everything she thought she knew about her best friend. How could Kristen have kept silent about so much? And could this secret have led to her death? As Abbey struggles to understand Kristen’s betrayal, she uncovers a frightening truth that nearly unravels her—one that will challenge her emerging love for Caspian, as well as her own sanity.
The Hollow by Jessica Verday
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
I was bored out of my mind the entire time I was reading this.
Abbey was such a weak protagonist. She was constantly being stepped all over because she let people do it to her without a single peep. She never fought back – not even when people started to talk trash about her best friend. And she was easily moved to tears, whether it was about an orange juice spill or the boy who was or was not her boyfriend, so a sizable portion of the book was composed of her sobbing uncontrollably in some corner where nobody would find her. I think she’s the worst female character I’ve ever come across.
And, as if that wasn’t bad already, the story also had an insufferable case of the INSTALOVE. Abbey didn’t even know the dude’s last name yet but she was already claiming to be in love with him. Ugh. (view spoiler) I don’t know how I managed to finish all 509 pages of this book.
I’m curious about the secret Abbey’s best friend, Kristen, was keeping from her. Other readers say that the person Kristen was seeing will be revealed in book two but since I don’t feel like I’m up for book two, I’ll just settle on reading their spoiler-filled reviews to get answers. I don’t really want to continue this series.
Forever A Fantasist 