Veronica 's Reviews > The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death

The Hollows series with Rachel Morgan and her crew is one of my all time favorite UF series. It occupies the top shelf of my bookcase and I own most of the series in hardcover, paperback, audiobook, and ebook. That's all to say that I think Kim Harrison crafted a world and characters that mean a lot to me. But, never let it be said that I allow love for one series and admiration for the author to bias my opinion of any of the author's other works. I have to call 'em like I see 'em and, for me, this prequel story just didn't have the same magic. Oh, the author can still craft a sentence with the best of them but the actual plot held little that was interesting and the new characters, with one exception, failed to impress.

I think the main problem I had is the same one that plagues most prequels. There was never a question or suspense whenever a character was in a certain situation because I already knew how it was all going to turn out for everyone. So rather than being drawn into the story and the plights of the characters, I felt like I was just spinning my wheels waiting for the characters to catch up and hit their already marked places on the stage. Even leaving the prequel issue aside, as an early days post-apocalypse story it was pretty tame.

There are a handful of Hollows characters who make appearances. One of them is the only real highlight of the book but I'm just not convinced that that's worth the hardcover price.