Book #28

The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan
374 pages
Popular Fiction
Of the three books in Carrie Ryans zombie trilogy The Dark and Hollow Places is the most chilling. The things that the Recruiters do to the captive humans and the Unconsecrated. It goes into the darkness of the time, the desperation, the poverty, and the hopelessness. This was my favorite of the whole trilogy, I think because of Annah. Annah is the main character who lives in the Dark City, previously New York City, alone for the past three years since her friend Elias left to join the Recruiters. Now he is back with her long lost twin sister, Abigail/Gabry and friend Catcher in tow.Before he left, Elias and Annah had a moment and Elias made her feel beautiful despite the left side of her body being mutilated by misshapen scars. With the city being ravaged by the Unconsecrated zombies searching for the taste of human flesh the group has to give themselves into the Recruiters who will keep them safe but to what extent? Are you safe if you are being threatened and abused almost daily by cruel men who want only bad things from you? Annah thinks not, and she is determined to get her sister, her friend, and her love out of here even if it means she must sacrafice her own life. It has a horde of Unconsecrated, true love, violence, heroism and more. It gave me chills... literally.
I could not put this book down because it was so intense and frightening. I recommend that you not read any of this series at night because it gave me nightmares, it's very disturbing. But still read it and the first two too (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, The Dead Tossed Waves). The Unconsecrated have always disturbed me in these books, the blank looks, the unhuman moaning, it just gives me chills thinking about them. Ugh. But great books, the best mix of scary and well everything else.