3 Stars
I wanted to like this story much more than I actually did. I’m a big fan of The Hollows, and was excited to learn more about Trent Kalamack’s parents. We certainly learn about them, and they are disappointing.
Trisk is a brilliant geneticist outshone by her mediocre and conniving rival Kal. Everything to do with Kal is boring, except for his interactions with Orchid, the pixy who thankfully doesn’t feel like a knockoff Jenks. And then Harrison shoehorns them together. It’s not clear why Trisk and Quen can’t be together despite obvious chemistry, and it’s even more frustrating that Daniel is thrown into the mix to make it a love quadrangle, rather than just a love triangle. (JUST a love triangle isn’t a sentence I relished the thought of ever writing.) In the book and as a character, Trisk still manages to shine despite her counterparts in the story as she perseveres against an incredibly sexist society.
The end of the world scenario was interesting at least – it will be interesting to watch society rebuild itself. I can only hope the next book is more compelling than The Turn.
The Turn is the first book in a series by the same name, a prequel series to Harrisson’s hit Urban Fantasy series The Hollows.
A version of this review was first published on Goodreads on June 26, 2017.
Alex Can Read 