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!

I was impressed by Patrick Delaney’s previous novel, The House that fell from the Sky, an entertaining spin on the haunted house tale, which was slightly let down by the fact that it was too long. However, rarely do you hear of buildings which quite literally drop out of the sky, an event brilliantly described in the opening sequence and the catastrophic destruction which follows, so it is also worth further investigation. The author does not make the same mistake twice and Silvers Hollows is a much leaner beast and a significantly shorter 186-pages, featuring a tightly constructed and streamlined story. Admittedly, proceedings may well have some readers scratching their heads (okay, everybody), but at the same time it was very easy to remain invested in reading a few extra pages in the off chance another piece of the perplexing jigsaw might fall into place (forget it).

The blurb mentions “Hitchcockian paranoia and the Lynchian surreal” and this is an honest hook which should be used to sell and hype Silvers Hollows. This is one of those books where it is very difficult to figure out what exactly is going on and the not knowing is a major part of the fun. Nothing is quite what it seems in this odd little town. Some readers might find this frustrating, as very little makes immediate sense, and everything is self-consciously weird or obscure. However, you will quickly find yourself being sucked into a mystery, in which the protagonist is not even sure herself what she is attempting to solve, as her memory is fragmented, but feels in her bones something is off.

Deliberately disorientating from the opening pages, a young woman wakes up in the train station of her hometown, a place she has not visited for years. She is immediately picked up by a policeman, he tells her things have changed and are now different (but from what?) and she vaguely recognises him from years earlier. She also has the impression little has moved on but does notice small and unsettling contrasts which put her on edge. Much of the plot centres around time and memory, how old is the woman? Is it really twenty years since she last visited? How much can we read into the hints of what has been going on in the previous two decades? Clues are dropped about a key episode from the past and there are very few people populating the empty streets. What the heck is going on? Welcome to a cross between The Twilight Zone and Blake Crouch’s Wayward Pines, or any other oddball town you can think of.

The main character obviously has baggage and there are flashbacks to when she was a kid, much of which centres upon her sister Ivy and the obscure issues she had with her parents. I do not want to say much more about the plot, as Silvers Hollows is best read not knowing too much in advance. The work also has an oppressive atmosphere which adds an extra layer to proceedings, this is topped by the clever descriptions of the location which might give a few indications to the direction the story is heading.

Much of the success of Silvers Hollows depends on how you rate the ending. Often books which have a convincing hook or concept are let down by their big finish or lack of it, but this is not the case with this story. As I was reading it, I played out various permutations, possibilities and wild guesses, a couple of which were not too far from the mark. One could argue the story was slightly one paced, in that everything revolved around the questions being asked by the main character and there was little in the way of threat. Ultimately the plot unfolded like a bad trip, with the reader observing an unfolding nightmare or experiment, following the protagonist discovering the breadcrumbs. You will have fun following the trail and I was pleased I guessed the ultimate direction of the plot.

Silvers Hollows is an easy and fast paced read which keeps the reader guessing with some decent twists, well described location and brooding atmosphere. Coming in at under 200-pages there is plenty of fun to hold your attention for a few hours. This was a very solid follow up from The House that fell from the Sky and also pleasingly different, a very good indication that Patrick Delaney is an author to watch.

Silver hollows puts the “creep” in creepy, that is for sure! I absolutely enjoyed how uncomfortable this book made me feel, and at times questioning myself! The writing style was easy to follow and it was definitely a page turner. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who enjoys a good psychological thriller.

A young woman who wakes up on a railroad platform with a headache and no knowledge of how she got there. It appears as though she's in her home town and .returning home to Silver's Hollow will turn out to be a trippy, nightmarish fever-dream. The town is different, yet the same. The few people she meets are familiar, yet changed. Something is off. What is "the emergency" everyone speaks of? Why are they so afraid?

If you've ever had the pleasure of remembering a remarkable, very vivid dream then Silver's Hollow will recall such a dream. The narrative is so effective if you think of it this way, the way that dreams go south and bounce between pleasant to scary to odd and back again. This is a dream/tale that I enjoyed greatly. It works best if you let your imagination go wild along with the story and just experience it.
Thank you #netgalley for allowing me to read and review #Silvers Hollow. It was a fun trip.

Silvers Hollow follows an unnamed woman who inexplicably finds herself back in her childhood hometown. But this is nothing like the homecoming you’d imagined. Instead, the once idyllic Silvers Hollow is changed and the events which unfold before us are all at once bizarre, grotesque and utterly terrifying.

This book is quite unlike anything I’ve read before. It is pacy, atmospheric, tense, disturbing, confusing and everything in between. Patrick Delaney does an excellent job in conveying a dreamlike setting throughout the whole book. We are, like our protagonist, completely lost as the events unfold and the story screams towards its climax.

It is all at once dystopian, apocalyptic and nightmarish. It is also addictive. I finished it quickly...because how could I not? I needed to get to the end, to the answers. Like the main character, I wanted to understand what led us to this point and why all of these things were happening.

Delaney does a fantastic job of setting each scene up with just the right amount of detail to make you feel uneasy. Every chapter is as bizarre and confusing as the rest, but in an addictive kind of way. There is a disorienting dreamlike quality to the whole thing, which leaves you both detached and invested - very much like the narrator, in a way. We know nothing of her. No concrete backstory, personality traits, accomplishments, etc. Instead, we experience what happens to her through her. And, boy, is it trippy AF.

While the ending was a crescendo, it didn’t quite have the closure I was hungering for as I devoured the story. But I can’t help but think that’s rather the point. It does not end completely wrapped up with a neat bow but leaves a multitude of possibilities in its wake. Which is all at once frustrating and satisfying.

If you are looking for a horror/psychological thriller you can devour in one night and keep you up long after you’ve put it down...then Silvers Hollow is for you!

Thank you to NetGalley and Oblivion Publishing for the ARC of Silvers Hollow in exchange for an honest review. I loved every unhinged minute of it and I’ll be chewing on the ending for a long time!

Thank you to NetGalley and Oblivion Publishing for this copy.

What could be more disconcerting than waking up in a place you know from your past with no idea as to how you got there? On top of that everything looks familiar but at the same time is just a little bit off. The tension rises as the main character explores her surroundings and finds that the people inhabiting Silvers Hollow seem to be hiding something and there seems to be an “emergency” happening but nobody will share with her what that emergency is.

The story races along to a startling conclusion forcing the reader to try to decide what is real and what is imaginary. I can’t wait to read this book a second time and see if there were things that I might have missed after the first reading.