Quick Review: The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

This was so good I can’t believe it’s taken me almost a whole month to write this review.

Kara moves home to her uncle’s to help him run his Mystery Museum while he recovers from surgery and she decides what her life looks like post-divorce. One day in the museum, a customer tells her there’s a hole in a wall. She goes to investigate and discovers a mysterious hallway that could not actually be there. It physically makes no sense. She discovers the hole is a portal to other realities and meets ravenous creatures who appear to hear thoughts.

This novel was consuming. It was scary and thrilling and I needed to know what happened next. I liked the main characters and the relationships in the book and I devoured it in a day. Absolutely worth the read.

Quick Review: Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

Continuing on with my reading of brutal texts while self-isolating, I finally got off the wait-list at the library for this book and decided to go ahead and go for it. This is about news agencies, like NBC, catching news stories about sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape and keeping them from coming out. If you know about Harvey Weinstein and wondered how he could have gotten away with hurting so many people, this is a read for you.

But, it is not an easy read. (Or an easy listen. The audiobook actually contains a segment of a police sting recording.) This book was really upsetting. But, it is really good that we are talking about the structures that protect people in power and allow them to hurt others. Now we just have to change the structures. Ha. Just. No big deal.