I received an e-arc via Netgalley, but all opinions are my own.

This book really draws you in from the start. I found myself always wanting to know what was happening next. The story is intriguing as you follow the main character through what seems to be her hometown. She can't quite place what's wrong, but something is definitely off about this place. The residents seem almost hostile and it's almost always night. I did enjoy the storytelling and the end was not something I would have guessed.

However, I felt like this book could have benefited from more world building. While, I mostly understand the main characters arc, the world didn't really make sense. I felt like the reader isn't given enough background information and by the end of the book I was left with more questions than answers. I would like to read more by this author, but this novella fell a little flat for me.

This is a pretty quick read that pulls you along like some kind of lucid fever dream. No massive info dumps or exposition here. You go in as blind and confused as our protagonist and feel as though are you only piecing things together as she is. The story is engaging and quick but I didn’t feel the ending was the payoff I hoped it was. Much still left unexplained. (The tiger??) I enjoyed the journey, but a little underwhelmed with the destination

This book definitely did the creepy thing well.. When our main character wakes up at the train station of her home town she is disoriented, and that feeling never went away. The town of SIlvers Hollow seems to be overshadowed by darkness and time has no meaning.. There are no clocks anywhere and only landline phones that can only dial to other homes in the town. Everything is very disjointed as our main character is having trouble rememering much of anything at all, and the town only seems to have a few people living in it. She can't find her parents anywhere and is told to stay in due to this town "emergency" that everyone seems to know about except her.
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It gives off a creepy dream vibe, which I did like, but I think I would have liked it moreif we ended up getting some answers about her family, and how she ended up in town, and found out exactly what was going on outside of the town that had everyone so scared. She seems to have glimpses of memory that we do see but I don't think we get all of the answers so I felt kind of unsatisfied by the ending.
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However since alot of other people seem to really like this book, so I think it just might not have been for me.. So if the synopsis sounds like something you would like to read I would recommend checking it out.

While Silvers Hollow was less detail-oriented than I expected for a book by Delaney, but it was full of his trademark atmospheric writing. Delaney is a master of crafting an atmosphere of dread and tension in his stories and with all the mystery and unreliable narration in Silvers Hollow this craft is brought to the forefront of the reader’s attention.

I also found myself compulsively turning pages to find out what was actually happening and what would come up next. The short chapter chunks made it easy to continue on “just one more chapter.” And I had lots of fun trying to figure out all the mysteries.

What ended up not working for me was the ending itself. I felt like I never really understood what was going on and was left with more questions than I had at the beginning of the book. Personally, I don’t particularly enjoy a vague ending, but those that do will love this book.

Thank you so much to Oblivion Publishing and NetGalley for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review!

Any time I don’t have a watch on my wrist, I am conscious of its absence. It’s a lot simpler to look at my watch than it is to reach for my phone and get the time from there. I’ve always worn a watch and I feel close to naked if I am, for whatever reason, not wearing one. I suppose I’m like most people in that I need to know what time it is, what day it is, and–in these pandemic times–what month it is. So imagine waking up one day with no recollection of any of these mundane facts. That would be scary, right?

The main character in Patrick R. Delaney‘s latest novel, Silvers Hollow, faces such a bizarre and disconcerting situation. She is anonymous to the reader, remaining unnamed throughout the book, and despite having some memories, she is practically anonymous to herself. The premise is a simple one, if deceptively so. A woman wakes up on the platform of a deserted train station, with the train she may or may not have been on pulling away. She has no memory of how she got there, or where she is–or what time it is. Leaving the station she meets the first of the supporting characters that drift in and out of the narrative. The woman finds herself in the back of Officer Smith’s ancient police car, and he takes her on a strange and meandering journey through what seems to be her childhood town of Silvers Hollow.

Nostalgia ain’t what it used it be, the saying goes, and this particular trip down memory lane is anything but comforting. Delaney’s main character is put through the wringer, emotionally and physically. Silvers Hollow itself seems stuck in time, with none of the modern amenities you would see and take for granted today. And it’s always dark. The story, as it unfolds, leaves the reader and the woman without any light at all. There is a reason for this, but you need to stick the course to find out. Meanwhile, the woman has to contend with the mystery of why she is where she is, and what, if anything, her family has to do with her predicament.

The people she meets on her journey are equally as scared, but of what, they can’t or won’t say. This adds to the sense of menace and dread that permeates the book. Delaney’s decision to allow the reader to follow closely beside his main character is an excellent one. All throughout the book I felt the same things the woman felt. It was like being a companion to someone else’s dream, and it wasnt a comfortable experience at all. But I kept reading because, like the woman, I wanted answers.

Silvers Hollow makes full use of its brief running time, coming in a couple of pages shy of 190. But don’t let its brevity fool you: there’s a lot going on here, and nothing is what it seems. Patrick R. Delaney has crafted a well-written, atmospheric, psychological horror story. The end is both dystopian and apocalyptic, and you’ll never ever want to have a dream like it.

NetGalley and the publishers of Silvers Hollow provided me with an ARC in return for an honest review. I thank them for the opportunity. The book will be published June 1, 2021, and is available to pre-order.

Twilight Zone vibes for this book is what intrigued me, but that’s where the interests stop.

A woman awakes in the town she grew up in with no memory of why. The town is hardly what she remembers, and as more and more peculiar things happen, she is desperate to find out what is going on.

I was so confused about the entire book. It took way too long to show me what was going on and the twist at the end was .... still the most lacking thing. I guess what happened is up to interpretation. Was there an alien invasion? An apocalypse? A nuclear war? No clue! All I know is the town was underground.
The whole Ivy thing bothers me too!

I will say my favourite line and really struck me was, “In the right context, something can seem comical but in the wrong one, unbelievable frightening.”

Thanks to Net Galley and the publisher for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
This story starts off with mystery-something has happened to our narrator. She wakes up on a train platform with a bump on her head, and no idea how she got there. She is told that the train she saw leaving as she wakes- hasn’t run in decades.
From there things get even more confusing as she navigates her childhood home town that is a a near reality- but not quite right - dream scape. Is it a dream? Is it a walking nightmare? Is she dead? The few people she meets acts even weirder (I kept expecting them to break out into the “time warp” ) and talks about the “emergency” but wont tell her what it is. Coupled with this we have flash backs to her childhood where her father repeatedly takes her little sister into the basement each evening, and she returns traumatized. ( tiny spoiler- its not what you think)
We don’t find out exactly what is happening until the very end. Some may find this mind bendiness interesting, but wasn’t my cup of tea. Personally, I found the story about as interesting as listening to a friend tell you about their dream ...for 4 hours and 45 minutes.

Silvers Hollow was an interesting, quick read. Originally, the concept reminded me of Silent Hill: a woman waking up in her hometown, with no memory of how she'd gotten there. However, as the story went on, it became more original, and I enjoyed how even halfway through the book, you still weren't exactly sure what was happening. The book was quite creepy, with a tense atmosphere that doesn't let up throughout the book.

Nevertheless, I was personally unsatisfied by the ending - I felt like it was a bit rushed, and I was a bit disappointed by it, when the rest of the book had been so engaging.

Overall, if you're looking for a short, creepy read, Silvers Hollow fits the bill.

Awakening in her childhood hometown, a woman finds she has no recollection of how she arrived there. People she meets allude to an "emergency" that happened but will not elaborate on the meaning of that. She tries to find the time but there are never any working clocks, the newspapers are from decades past, and no one will tell her what time it is. From meeting a peculiar officer to getting to her psychologist appointment on time, to being invited to a strange dinner party, the young lady uncovers her memories of her young life in the town.

The book has a Twin Peaks vibe and is quite mysterious.

An unknown woman mysteriously arrives in her hometown, but everything is like an episode of The Twilight Zone. Everything feels off somehow. This is my second novel by Patrick Delaney. My first was The House that Fell from the Sky. This story takes place in the same universe as THtFftS, including the title. I read this book on one sitting. I had to find out what was going on with this woman and with the town. All in all, it was a satisfying read and I highly recommend it.

This book gripped me right from the start. We follow an unnamed woman as she awakens in her childhood hometown with no recollection of how she arrived. It's fast paced and trippy and I couldn't put it down. None of the theories I had in my head were right when I came to the end and to be quite honest, I'm still not sure I understood it, but I enjoyed it all the same!

Loved this one! So easy to read and lots of twists and turns along the way. Definitely a quick read and one I recommend.

This book is very well-written. From the intriguing start, with tiny clues sprinkled through the narrative, the reader moves along with the amnesiac protagonist, wanting to find out just what on Earth is going on.

It gripped me enough that I finished it in a few hours. However, I was really disappointed in the ending - I felt that events were ramping up and up... and then the result was comparatively weak. This took the book from Silent Hill levels of memorable to forgettable, because it seems like the ending negated the story.

I sincerely wish it could’ve been better as a cunning and atmospheric horror tale - 2/3 of which it is.

This started great and I had high expectations for this novel but the end... was a letdown.

The book is really well written; there's a dream-like essence in each passage that is both endearing and creates a suspense that makes it very hard to stop reading once you start. The characters are well built and the dialog feels real. The entire premise is interesting and you just can't help but wonder what in the world is going on in this town.

However... when we finally get to know the truth, it falls flat. It did not convince me and sounded like a safe escape for the author who had put himself in a corner with a too ambitious start.

Still, I recommend the novel because even if the destination isn't all that great, the journey is good enough.

I'd like to thank NetGalley and the author for providing me with an ARC of this novel in exchange for my honest review.

This book definitely had potential. The storyline was interesting. I enjoy books with unreliable narrators. This one kept the " what's going on" storyline too repetitive. It got annoying. The end reveal was a little too rushed and not enough of the questions were answered. Or they were answered and just too rushed. I believe if this book had been longer and the story of the dad, her little sister, and where she truly was, was more explained, it could have been brilliant. Like what was the reason behind the "dome town" and was the rest of the earth gone, or did her dad put her there for another reason? And I still don't understand what she meant by she killed the others and the whole helicopter trip. Just some parts were confusing.

I enjoyed this book. The imagery was really good and it takes you to Silvers Hollow. It was different than anything I have read and I will look for more books by this author. I was a bit confused about what was happening but I still couldn't put it down. Very well written.

Silvers Hollow by Patrick Delaney ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ /5
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A woman wakes to find herself in her childhood hometown. Dark memories resurface as she goes from place to place, things that don’t quite seem to match up with who she meets and what she sees...How did she get here? Why has she returned? What exactly is going on in Silvers Hollow?
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I really enjoyed this novel. I read it in about a day! I love the surreal, dream-like setting and characters. There are a few characters and scenes that I cannot stop thinking about. It is disturbing and detailed, mysterious, emotional, and unsettling. (Reader be warned, it does get graphic. Not for the faint of heart 😉). If you like Iain Reid’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things, you will love Silvers Hollow.

3.5 Stars. A woman wakes up in her childhood hometown, but doesn't remember why she came back.

If you've ever wanted to experience a hallucination but aren't a fan of LSD, this book is for you.

In all seriousness, I have mixed feelings about this book. I loved how creepy and eerie the tone of this book was. There was plenty of foreshadowing for the big reveals later on, but the reveals themselves weren't too obvious. I was surprised by the major plot twist of the book, which is always a plus for me. I loved the disorienting feeling of the book. It felt like a fever dream, in the best possible way. Or like one of those nightmares where you're walking through your house/neighborhood and it's like your house but not quite right and you just can't put your finger on it. Reading it felt like a scary dream in slow motion, which is a rare tone to capture so perfectly. I loved that aspect of it. I even liked the weirdness of it. I finished this book in a little more than a day, so I'd say it's definitely a page-turner; it'll keep you up reading through the night. There were so many things this book did well and, for the most part, I had a great reading experience.

But. The ending was terrible. I do enjoy a good open ending, but this was on another level. There were so many loose ends that were just left hanging out, with no resolution whatsoever. All of these questions and mysteries and puzzle pieces that had been scattered throughout the book just stayed confusing. It's one thing to use ambiguity as a plot device to make the book feel more horrific (i.e. the fear of the unknown), but the ending of this book just felt... lazy. And such a sloppy ending for an otherwise compelling and page-turning story feels cheap. I feel cheated out of a satisfying ending.

So, to sum up, if you like weird, eerie horror novels that feel like a nightmarish fever dream, you'll like this book a lot, as long as you're okay with the story having an equally weird and confusing ending.

This book is about a woman who wakes up at a train station from her childhood, but she can’t remember how she got there. Throughout her residence in the suburb she acknowledges some acquaintances from the past, however they behave seemingly odd.
I really enjoyed this novel, it’s fast paced, creepy, and incredibly well written.
The author got me hooked from the first page and he managed to build up a dark and eerie setting.
Almost till the very end I was absolutely clueless about what is actually going on and I really liked that I couldn’t foresee where this storyline was heading.
If you liked the „Wayward Pines trilogy“ and „The Stepford Wives“ you will definitely love „Silvers Hollow“ by Patrick Delaney.

thank you NetGalley and Oblivion Publishing for providing me with an advanced reader’s copy of this book. all thoughts and opinions are my own.

definitely more of a 3.5 than a 4, but ill round up.

i enjoyed the hell out of this, but it doesnt feel like something im going to remember for a long tome afterwards.

this book kind of didnt make any sense at all the whole way through, and the ending didnt really clear much up like i was hoping it would, and im desperate to figure out what this all meant. im just very confused for the most part, but i know that this was written very well and it was unbelievably creepy at times. a pretty good book for the most part!