Girl, Interrupted meet
Beautiful Disaster in this thrilling and sexy debut novel, in which a
college student learns her perfect life is a lie and finds new love
where she least expects it—a mental institution.
Freaks, misfits, and psychopaths. Those are the kinds of people found at Newton Heights Psychiatric Hospital, and high-society girl Lucy White’s new home.
Freaks, misfits, and Jayden McCray. Jayden has his own set of rules for life at Newton Heights, and in this enigma, Lucy finds a way to live with the events that left her cheating boyfriend and best friend dead—and Lucy in the middle of the investigation into their demise.
The problem? Jayden makes her want things she’s not supposed to have, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality and making Lucy feel more at home in Newton Heights than she ever did at home. But this isn’t how her life is supposed to be…
Or is it?
Freaks, misfits, and psychopaths. Those are the kinds of people found at Newton Heights Psychiatric Hospital, and high-society girl Lucy White’s new home.
Freaks, misfits, and Jayden McCray. Jayden has his own set of rules for life at Newton Heights, and in this enigma, Lucy finds a way to live with the events that left her cheating boyfriend and best friend dead—and Lucy in the middle of the investigation into their demise.
The problem? Jayden makes her want things she’s not supposed to have, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality and making Lucy feel more at home in Newton Heights than she ever did at home. But this isn’t how her life is supposed to be…
Or is it?
I’m not entirely sure of how I feel
about this book. Hollow tells us the
story of Lucy White. After a tragic night, she finds herself being investigated
for manslaughter. At the advice of her attorney and the insistence of her
mother, she admits herself to a mental institution. Once there, Lucy faces the
monumental task of finding herself – an objective made that much more difficult
each time her mother visits and reveals family secrets. Ms. Conway made it easy
to hate Lucy’s mother. The woman was so self-involved that it blew my mind –
and I have known some extremely self-involved people. I was not surprised that
Lucy finally went off on her mother; frankly, I was surprised it took her that
long.
If Lucy’s mother represented the
dark cloud in her life, Jayden was her light. While I liked Jayden’s
protectiveness of others, especially Flynn, Nesto, and Lucy, and the way in
which he found his place within the ward, I never quite connected with him. Or
Lucy for that matter. I enjoyed their relationship – the way they bantered, the
way they listened to one another, the way they gave the other hope – but
something was missing for me that prevented me from connecting the characters
fully. Normally I would give a book like this 3 stars for being a good read.
However, this is a really well-written book and I did enjoy it. I actually
loved the way in which Ms. Conway ended the book. As odd as this may sound, I
don’t want to read the sequel if it’s about Lucy and Jayden. I don’t want to
know what happens to them next. I like their story as it is … ending in hope
and THAT is why I gave Hollow four stars.
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At fourteen, Ava snuck her first romance novel into bed and
read it by flashlight. There she met her first "book boyfriend" and
has been hooked on reading ever since. She often prefers book-boyfriends to the
real thing, and believes that a gooey, fudge brownie is a little piece of
heaven on earth. When she's not writing, she's stumbling through her Zumba
class (have to work off those brownies somehow), obsessing over the latest PINK
song, or feeding her addiction for reality television.
Note: Ava also writes erotic romances for her over-eighteen
fans as Suzanne Rock. See her kinkier side by checking out her website.
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