All Things Urban Fantasy's Reviews > The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death

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THE TURN takes Hollows fans back to where it all began, a world where witches, vampires, and all sorts of magic are hidden away behind the sexism, racism, and revolution of the 60's. Trisk Cambri, a brilliant young geneticist, has to work three times as hard as the slick, spoiled Trent Kalamack, and still racism and sexism slam doors in her face. The Good Girls' Revolt meets Urban Fantasy, THE TURN is an interesting glimpse of where the beloved characters of The Hollows all began.

Seeing all the links between this closed world and Rachel Morgan's Cincinnati was fascinating. An intricate clockwork of pride, circumstance, and folly clicking away towards the apocalypse Hollows fans know is coming. Unfortunately, watching dominoes fall isn't quite as satisfying when you know the characters you're falling in love with don't have much of a future. And while the confusingly named Trent Kalamack (called simply "Kal" to differentiate him from future, redeemed Trent Junior) does have emotional vulnerabilities, his spoiled, self-righteous, "Nice Guy" spite is an added dark spot on an already bleak ending.

Harrison leaves cookie crumbs of happiness for her characters, even those whose stories we eventually see alongside Rachel Morgan, but for the most part, THE TURN focuses on the elegant disaster that will recreate the world into one we know and love.

Sexual content: Non-explicit sex scenes.