Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats. Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. The ending manages to be both horrific and heartbreaking, and fans of Stewart’s The Sacrifice Box (BCCB 9/18) or Barraclough’s Long Lankin (BCCB 9/12) will appreciate the book’s lingering chill.Thanks so much to Pansing for sending me an ARC of this book! It’ll be available in all good bookstores soon! 😊 Shadowed by her two larger than life siblings, Iris is authentic in her reluctance to play the rescuer to her older sister, especially when the story Grey told them of their past becomes more and more suspicious. Readers familiar with changeling lore might have an idea of where this is going, but the tale takes several unpredictable and disturbing turns, and Sutherland maximizes tension by playing into familiar tropes and then tearing away from them with a disorienting but intriguing suddenness.
This is slow-burn horror with imagery steeped in the senses: the sour smell of rot and decaying bodies, the hot iron taste of a bloody mouth, the sight of an ant crawling out of a wound and rank flowers being pulled from bone-deep cuts. Unfortunately, any façade of a simple life goes out the window when Grey goes missing again, and Vivi and Iris find themselves hunted by a menacing man while they follow the bizarre and dangerous clues Grey seems to have left them, leading them right back to that Scottish road.
Enigmatic and gorgeous, the two older sisters now thrive on attention and chaos-Grey’s a fashion icon and Vivi is in a punk band-but seventeen-year-old Iris craves normalcy. The Hollow sisters captured global attention ten years ago when they vanished from a small road in Scotland only to reappear in the same place a month later, mostly uninjured but with no memory of what happened to them.
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