She can’t remember how she got to the train station in her hometown, but she remembers why she doesn’t want to be there. The place is haunted with bad memories which is why she hasn’t visited in years. She remembers her parents and their distant—even negligent treatment of her and her sister. She remembers how her father would sometimes take her sister into the basement. She remembers her sister begged for help. She remembers so many things that don’t quite fit with the experiences she has right now. Something’s wrong in Silvers Hollow.
This book takes readers through a wiggly-woggly nightmare landscape where the familiar morphs into a terrifying doppelganger of reality. If you are in the mood for something completely different, this is the one for you.
What Works in this Book
• We’re seeing this world through the perceptions of the main character and the author does an outstanding job of conveying her confusion.
• I loved the disjointed bits and pieces of memory that make up the whole and how these are revealed at just the right pace.
• It’s an absorbing read and one that will keep you guessing throughout—I like the unpredictability of it.

What Doesn’t Work So Well
I needed more explanation at the end. I see what’s happening, I get it, but I’d like a bit more clarification. Really this is the only thing I find to gripe about. I’d like a little more time spent on the actual reality.
Even with this bit of whininess from me, I heartily recommend Silvers Hollow to readers of horror and fans of the non-formulaic suspense novel. Four out of Five Stars for Silvers Hollow by Patrick Delaney.

SILVERS HOLLOW: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The description provides you with all the information you’re gonna get. It was interesting to be dropped into a story like that and making discoveries as the main character. I don’t think I fully understand (?) everything but thought the ride was a good one.

NOTE: I was provided an arc in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you so much for my copy of Silvers Hollow. I was very excited to read this story and was intrigued by the synopsis. This story left me with more questions than answers and I was left scratching my head. Delaney's writing kept me hooked on the storyline and even though this wasn't a 5 star read for me, I am excited to read more from this author.

The story opens with a woman waking up in a dark railway station with no memory of how she reached there and finding that she's in her childhood hometown, Silvers Hollow. Only there's something wrong about the town that she can't quite put a finger on. What transpires from there is a dark horror/mystery that will keep you as confused as the protagonist and turning the pages.

This book was going so well till the last 10 pages. I was lost, full of questions and theories on 'what the hell is going on!'. The terror is subtle for the most part. The writing is atmospheric and keeps you glued to the pages. I was loving it and was all set to give this book a 5-star review. But then the story ended and I thought my copy was not downloaded properly.
But I HATE ambiguous ending in a thriller. When I read a mystery I want all (at least most) the mysteries solved by the last page. And that's where it fell apart for me. I couldn't believe that that's how this book is going to end. More than half of the questions in the story are left unanswered, and the big reveal although unexpected was not strong enough to hit the right chords. If you like vague endings, go for it. But if that's not your cup of tea, then chances are the ending will leave you furious like me.

Thanks to NetGalley and Oblivion Publishing for the ARC.

"I wake at the foot of a metal step as the train pulls away"
From the very first line of Patrick Delaney's book Silvers Hollow, I was hooked. The story quickly grabs hold of you does not let go until its over, the pacing is brilliant and I eagerly devoured this book in one sitting.

The story begins as our unnamed narrator wakes up on a train platform dazed and confused with no memory of how she got there or why. A police officer finds her and they leave together. The story takes off from there as the narrator attempts to piece together her memories and discover what led her back to Silvers Hollow. All the while, nothing is quite as it seems.

Patrick Delaney does an excellent job of creating an eerie atmosphere and captivating characters, and I felt like I was right there with the narrator the whole time. As I read, I could feel her confusion and disorientation seeping through the pages. I was simultaneously rushing to the end so I could find out what happens and also not wanting it to end at all. An absolute must for atmospheric horror fans!

I am not sure of what I just read. Confusing and beyond weird. Some people evidently understood and enjoyed this book but I was not one of them. Even if I wanted to include spoilers, I couldn’t. Just one weirdo book.

There's something brewing but you're not sure what it is. Even once you've reached the end, you're still not sure what is. I'm not particularly keen on these kinds of stories, but this book's tense scenes intrigued me enough to read until the end... Whatever that end was.

Many thanks to the publisher and author for the ARC.

**This review will be written firstly in English, then in Portuguese, my mother language.**

This is a confusing book.

Mind you, it's not confusion rising from a badly written, all over place plot. It's intentionally confusing in the way of psychological thrillers, and the main character is full of questions and very unreliable through 90% of it, so you're left feeling about as lost as she is.

The narrator was a complicated one to follow. She never seemed to ask the correct questions or insist on things, which is why things take *so long* to unveil in the first place. It wasn't a problem of the book being too long, because it's not. The ending was just overly rushed. You get dumped with the whole answer for the mystery right at the end (and it's a good answer, Lovecraftian even), and I felt like it being slowly revealed would make the reveal seem less claustrophobic.

The atmospheric writing *was* good, and I still had a rather good time. It's fast paced enough that I got through it in a single day, as well. Definitely worth the time of any psychological fans that want a quick read.

Ultimatum: 3.5 stars. A bit rushed, but confusing in all the right ways. Who knew confusion could be fun?

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Esse é um livro confuso.

Mas atenção, a confusão não vem de uma história mal escrita, muito mal feita. Ele é confuso de forma intencional, como um thriller psicológico, e a personagem principal tem muitas perguntas e não é confiável por 90% do livro, então você fica tão perdido quanto ela.

A narradora é difícil de ser seguida. Ela nunca faz as perguntas certas ou insiste em algo, e é por isso que as coisas demoram tanto para serem reveladas. Não foi um problema do livro ser muito longo, porque ele não é. O final só foi corrido demais. Derrubam o mistério todo em você bem no final (e é uma resposta boa, bem vibe Lovecraft), e eu acredito que se ela fosse revelada mais devagar faria tudo menos claustrofóbico.

A escrita atmosférica foi boa, e eu me diverti bastante com o livro. Ele tem um ritmo rápido e eu li inteiro em um único dia. Vale o tempo de qualquer fã de um thriller psicológico querendo uma leitura rápida.

Ultimato: 3.5 estrelas. Meio apressado, mas confuso do jeito certo. Quem imagina que a confusão poderia ser divertida?

Such a mind blowing read! Tons of twists and turns throughout the book. I highly recommend!! Thanks to publisher and NetGalley for this read.

I didn't mean to read this book. I should have known better. I dnf'd the last book I attempted to read from this author, but didn't notice it was the same when I picked this one up.

This author's stories sound awesome in the summary. It sounds like this will be a neat supernatural thriller of sorts. And it might be,...If only the writing wasn't so terrible.

Silver's Hollow is a sort of attempt at a modern, horror Alice in Wonderland. But where the author of that classic wrote nonsense in a somewhat coherent fashion, Delaney is a mess. I made it about 30%, but not only had nothing happened but I could barely track what had happened. What time of day was it? Is the character a female, I couldn't remember? It felt like it was supposed to be trippy but fell flat into just plain sloppy. Like, when you wake up from a weird dream and write down all the details you remember, but only you know what the disjointed sentences and descriptors mean. To everyone else, it's just words.

I keep seeing good reviews for now both books from this author that I could not get through. I'm so glad someone else is able to track the sequences of events. I can't. This book needs an editor.

Thanks NetGalley and Oblivion for a copy to review.

A woman awakens at a train station in her home town with no recollection of how she got there. After hitching a ride with a local police officer, things start to get weird when she begins noticing something’s not right with the people and landscape around her. She is then lead back to her childhood home, where the secrets of her past and the truth behind why she’s back in Silvers Hollow is revealed.

Well, this book was quite a trip! And I mean that in the best way possible because I loved it. Silvers Hollow is a quick, weird little book that really packed a punch, while also being creepy and keeping me on the edge of my seat. This being my first book by Patrick Delaney I didn’t know what to expect, but I was quite pleasantly surprised and enjoyed the mix of horror, thriller and science fiction that he combined to tell this story. 

I didn’t have any major issues with this novel, the writing was good and the pacing of the book was well done. My feelings about the ending are conflicted, on the one hand it took a turn I enjoyed but wasn’t quite expecting, but I also felt some aspects didn’t fit with the rest of the story. Mostly, I enjoyed it and appreciated feeling satisfied with an ending that actually explained what was going on. If you are someone who likes more ambiguous endings, this would not be for you. 

Overall this was a well written, thrilling, and weird story that I would highly recommend. Patrick Delaney is definitely on my radar.

This review was posted on NetGalley, Goodreads, Instagram and a more detailed review is on my personal blog (chaptersxthepage.ca).

This is the second time I've been reading a book by Mr. Delaney and while I had some mixed feelings about the first one, I was very much in love with this one. This book is one very delicious mindfuck and I really hope Mr. Delaney will continue to write horror-thrillers like this one because it was amazing.
There were a couple of references to The House That Fell From The Sky which I considered smartly done, since the books seem to be taking place in the same universe.
I have a weakness for clueless characters who only learn about their past and purpose peu a peu and the characters in this book were horrifyingly well written. I greatly enjoyed reading this book and I am looking forward to the future works of the author.
Hopefully we'll be able to make further connections between the future novels set in this universe; I am really excited to see whether or not all these plots are eventually going to end up tied together in a seperate novel - and if that's going to be the case; I know I will read the heck out of it.

I received a free ARC by Netglley in exchange for an honest review.

A woman wakes up in the train station of her hometown with no memory of the events that lead her to come back. she journeys into town in search of an explanation but instead she is faced with memories from her tormented past.
There is a lot of positive reviews of the book, I'm not sure I had the same experience as the other readers.
The plot made my brain claw at my skull. First, there is no substance to the story, the big part of the prose went to flashbacks and unnecessary descriptions. The storyline is jumpy without any connection between the chapters. I get it that the mc has some sort of amnesia but I was hoping for at least some logic leading one action to the other.
the book ends abruptly with not much of an explanation, and a lot of loopholes.
The only thing I liked about the book was the setting.
This is not my first experience with author Patrick R Delaney and I keep coming back because of his creepy settings and wild imagination. I have a feeling that one day he is going to write my favorite book
Many thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for my advanced review copy

I’m not convinced I understood anything I just read.
Literally WTF?
I'm not even sure if I liked it or not; this one also took me way longer than it should have to read considering it is a short book.

This book was mind boggling and not in a good way. I saw that it was only 186 pages and immediately thought I’d devour it in one sitting. That didn’t happen. What should have been a quick read turned into me stopping often because I didn’t know what the point of the book was. You don’t get answers until the last hour of the book. Unfortunately for me, this book was drawn out and…unnecessary.

I’d like to thank NetGalley and Oblivion Publishing for this book in exchange for an honest review.

A woman awakens on the ground of an empty train depot while seeing the red lights of the train as it just left the station and she finds her clothes are dirty and also has a bang on her head and notices her watch missing as well.
Very confused and in pain she finally recognizes the train depot of her childhood town Silver Hollows. Why would she be back here? She hasn't been back to her hometown in decades. Why now? She is approached by a police officer who puts her in his car and he knows who she is and he will take her home but she also sees that his police car appears as if it is from the 1950's (very strange) and the town seems empty as well. Why is she here and where will she go and what the heck is going on?

This was an interesting and mysterious piece of work by Patrick Delaney. The story had a moody and poetic style of writing and the reader is kept in the dark (literally) until the very end. This was more of a subtle type of horror story not really my cup of tea but it may have a great appeal for many readers. I really wanted to like this book but I have to admit I was pretty lost throughout the story and maybe more confused by the time I finally finished it. Please remember this was my opinion and others will appreciate the book for how it was written.

I want to thank the publisher "Oblivion Publishing" and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book and any thoughts and opinions expressed are unbiased and mine alone!

I have given a rating of 2 1/2 🌟🌟🌠 stars!!

4.5/5

This would be really fun to talk about with someone. Maybe that someone could explain it to me. I mean I’m not stupid or anything, but the ending just sort of made sense to me when I think it should have made complete sense. From what I can tell it was a perfect conclusion to a perfectly disorientating, confusing, mind-boggling little gem. This is the type of book where you have to abandon all hope of understanding and just go with it. At least until the end when it all comes together. It does, doesn’t it?

Thank you for this opportunity to read this wonderful book.

This is a super quick, but incredibly intense mind f**k of a book. It will pull you in, keep you guessing and then drop your jaw with brutal gore and a refreshing storyline. I am finding that Delaney’s writing is full of not only shock value, but visceral human connections.

A young woman wakes on a train platform of her childhood hometown, but quickly finds that this is nothing like the place she remembers. Sifting through her childhood memories and trying to figure out what is actually happening in the Silvers Hollow she has found herself in, she has to uncover the truth about “the emergency” that the odd townsfolk keep referencing.

This is a profound read full of psychological and carnal horror and I definitely recommend it!

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

We are immediately thrown into the action in Silvers Hollow, with a woman who wakes up on a train station with no idea how she got there, so I was immediately hooked, and questioning how she got there and what was going to happen to her.

This book was full of suspense and it was sufficiently creepy. I found the narrator where it was told in 1st person narrative, did feel like it was unreliable, as we were only seeing her side of the story. There were parts of the story where I honestly, just couldn't see where it was going.

It was really cleverly written and I think the fact that it wasn't particularly long didn't let it down, I still felt like you got a lot of the story, and you were immersed in the world. I was definitely invested to find out what happened.

Overall, it was an enjoyable, quick read, creepy and eerie. Would recommend!

I took a few days to think about Silvers Hollow. Knowing this was from the author of The House That Fell From the Sky, I thought I was prepared for the kind of book I would be getting. I was only about half prepared. You know when you are reading a scene and you start to realize it’s a dream? This is like that backwards. You are reading what you feel has to be a dream and then you start to realize that the character is experiencing what she is describing. You spend all of the pages trying to find out why. And what. And, even who. It is obvious that everyone else knows what is happening. This can be a really hard line to straddle. Sometimes it is just frustrating and annoying and sometimes it is intriguing. Patrick Delaney did it the right way. Saying much more of anything would be too much. Just know that as you are reading you will think you are figuring out at least parts of it. You will most likely be wrong at least some of the time. Enjoy it.