{"id":815,"date":"2015-02-06T11:26:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T16:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=815"},"modified":"2015-01-11T11:27:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T16:27:52","slug":"review-the-hollow-drowned-by-christopher-golden-and-ford-lytle-gilmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Hollow: Drowned by Christopher Golden and Ford Lytle Gilmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/drowned.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-816\" alt=\"drowned\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/drowned.jpg\" width=\"43\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Shane Lancaster and his sister Aimee are descendants of Ichabod Crane, the fellow in the Sleepy Hollow story who had a run in with the headless horseman.\u00a0 When they move to Sleepy Hollow from Boston their presence unleashes supernatural forces dormant in Sleepy Hollow.\u00a0 It is up to Shane, Aimee, and her best friend Stasia to uncover the cause of mysterious drownings that are occurring as well as what attacked a group of teens having a party in a cornfield.\u00a0\u00a0 The Hollow has the feel of a Scooby Doo mystery, with a bunch of normal teens doing detective work to solve a case- but at the end, instead of a man in a rubber mask, they face a true supernatural creature. The unresolved romantic tension between Shane and Stasia also gives the book a touch of Buffy.\u00a0 This is a well-written book that moves along quickly. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The second in a series, it follows\u00a0<i>The Hollow: Horseman<\/i>\u00a0and precedes\u00a0<i>The Hollow: Mischief.\u00a0<\/i>Recommended as a good fit for reluctant readers looking for horror stories and for creature-loving readers.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Contains murders by supernatural creatures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Shane Lancaster and his sister Aimee are descendants of Ichabod Crane, the fellow in the Sleepy Hollow story who had a run in with the headless horseman.\u00a0 When they move to Sleepy Hollow from Boston their presence unleashes supernatural forces dormant in Sleepy Hollow.\u00a0 It is up to Shane, Aimee, and her best friend Stasia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[83,123,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-news","category-ghosts","category-ya-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-d9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}