Hollow Heathens

Hollow Heathens: Book of Blackwell by Nicole Fiorina
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Our book club picked this book up, I’m not sure what I expected, but it certainly wasn’t this. We were looking for a spicy paranormal romance and this was certainly way more world building than typically included in a “simple” book club read.

Fallon is a girl who has always been strange, seeing ghosts, being raised by her mother’s friend after she lost both her mother and her father. Just when she thought she had lost all her family, a letter arrives from her grandfather, who happens to be ill and living in a faraway town. This all sets Fallon on the path to a magical town where one faction wears masks and another is even more nefarious. There’s a lot of backstabbing, magic, mystery, and tragedy all in this story.

Julien is the required bad boy, one of the “hollow heathens” who can’t remove his mask without tragedy. He and Fallon are a bit of Romeo & Juliet in this story, with a MUCH darker spin. Like I said, there’s tragedy, but there’s also some questionable consent, murder, some very tragic death, and so much more. This book really took the long way to get to a HEA for our main characters. The world building was definitely interesting, but something about the pacing kept me from truly diving in. That being said, while there is another book in the series, we decided to stop here.

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