The Hollower (The Hollower Trilogy)
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (645 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1492268488 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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She has a Masters degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, Pittsburgh. She is currently a member of The Authors Guild, The International Thriller Writers, and Penn Writers . Mary SanGiovanni is the author of the the HOLLOWER trilogy, THRALL, and CHAOS, and the novellas FOR EMMY, POSSESSING AMY, and THE FADING PLACE, as well as numerous short stories
It knows how to destroy them from the inside out. But when his sanity, his life, and the safety of his only family and friends is in danger, he has to look inside himself for a strength that his otherwordly enemy can't touch -- strength that can hopefully save them all.. It can't see them, hear them, or touch them, but it knows them — their fears, their insecurities, and their secrets. Dave Kohlar has never felt like he was good for anything. Something alien is stalking residents of Lakehaven, New Jersey. And it won't stop until each of them is dead
She is currently a member of The Authors Guild, The International Thriller Writers, and Penn Writers . About the Author Mary SanGiovanni is the author of the the HOLLOWER trilogy, THRALL, and CHAOS, and the novellas FOR EMMY, POSSESSING AMY, and THE FADING PLACE, as well as numerous short stories. She has a Masters degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, Pittsburgh
"A promising debut" according to Amazon Customer. The Hollower is a virtual treatise on the nature of despair, a tight, tough, often nasty bit of work that focuses on a group of protagonists who, unfortunately, have come to the attention of a seemingly supernatural entity that one of their number refers to as the Hollower. This entity, which collects identities and voices which it uses against its victims, feeds on the doubt, confusion and insecurity it fosters in its carefully chosen targets.The Hollower appears full blown within the first few pages of the story, shortly after pushing one of the people it's stalking to. "Nice Debut Novel" according to Christopher S. Eubanks. From the opening pages, Mary SanGiovanni, sets the tension bar high with a suicide followed by empty footsteps trailing out an open door. Her main characters are all broken people- a recovering coke-addict, a barmaid who was molested as a child, an alcoholic and his mentally unstable younger sister, an emotion-fearing cop, and a young boy whose father died early. The common ground between them is a "man" wearing a black fedora, trench coat and gloves that comes to expose their deepest fears. This man has no face, but instead a smooth, blank canvas where its features shou. "When the mind destroys the flesh" according to Kasia S.. Considering that this is the author's first novel I was very impressed with the quickness of the action and professional tone of the book. However the more I read it the more the action felt like a movie on TV, it would fit perfectly on the Sci-fi network as a late night flick. Fast and to the point no time was wasted to introduce all the troubled characters who by a miracle find each other, they all have a problem and don't now how to solve it, what it will cost them will be their lives and they have no weapons, scarce information and they rely on sheer luck to bring th