Title: Hollow Ground           

Author: Annah Rae Covert  

Genre: Thriller

Publisher: unknown

Format: Paperback

Pages: 270

Rating: 3/5 stars

Synopsis (Goodreads):

Leave now or you will die like your father.

Ten years after her father’s death in a horrific car accident, Ryan returns to East Texas to mend her relationship with her mother, only to be blindsided by her callous indifference.

Ignoring the pain of rejection, Ryan navigates her new life in college, her new roommates, and her new therapist. Her nightmares and anxiety attacks are more prevalent than ever and now her therapist insists on more aggressive treatments to combat the debilitating symptoms caused by her repressed memories.

A run on the campus trails turns catastrophic and her worst nightmares become reality. Threatening letters start to flow in. Someone wants her to leave. With an unknown force stalking her every move and her mental illness at its worst, Ryan can’t trust anyone, least of all herself. The attacks are escalating and the only one who has the answers that Ryan needs is nowhere to be found.

On a journey to know who she is, she discovers that everything she thinks she knows, is a lie.

Review:

Thank you very much to the author for sending me a copy of this book for review! I was super intrigued by the description of this book and I was excited to read it!

The book follows Ryan, who is beginning her first year of college. She moved back to Texas to mend her relationship with her mom, which had been strained after the death of her father, but she finds that the mending is not going as well as it could be. Then Ryan starts getting creepy messages and thinks she’s being followed and as the read you are just wondering what earth is happening.

I found this book really interesting and I connected to the story and to Ryan right away! One aspect of the book that had me really thinking was hypnosis as a means of therapy. I feel like I haven’t done enough research on that topic in order to make opinions about that aspect, but it added an interesting twist. The only thing I found weird was the relationship Ryan had with her best friend, Cody. Are there any feelings there? Or are they actually just friends? I think Cody secretly loves her because he’s calling her babe and kissing her on the cheek and stuff, which kinda made me feel like they weren’t just friends. So I would like to see where that goes cause definitely acted like a couple and not best friends. Overall I enjoyed this book!

Happy reading!