Hollowpox

The Hunt for Morrigan Crow Nevermoor, #3

by Jessica Townsend

Paperback, 474 pages

English language

Published Feb. 4, 2020 by Orion.

ISBN:: 978-1-5101-0733-5

Morrigan Crow and her friends have survived their first year as proud scholars of the elite Wundrous Society, helped bring down the nefarious Ghastly Market, and proven themselves loyal to Unit 919. Now Morrigan faces a new, exciting challenge: to master the mysterious Wretched Arts, and control the power that threatens to consume her.

But a strange and frightening illness has taken hold of Nevermoor, turning infected Wunimals into mindless, vicious Unnimals on the hunt. As victims of the Hollowpox multiply, panic spreads. And with the city she loves in a state of fear, Morrigan quickly realizes it's up to her to find a cure for the Hollowpox, even if it will put her - and everyone in Nevermoor - in more danger than she ever imagined.

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Amanda reviewed Hollowpox by Jessica Townsend

Review of 'Hollowpox' on 'GoodReads'

5 stars

The series is really taking off now. It’s poignant and whimsical and funny. It’s got it’s own logic and massive urban fantasy world building of the kind that Harry Potter had, but it’s also apparent that we do books so much better now. It’s got queer representation, in the text (and subtext), that isn’t tokenised.

And best of all it’s doing interesting things with all the standard fantasy tropes: villains, magic, magical schools and good versus evil. I think this author thinks a lot more of her audience than previous children’s and YA book authors have, and that we will get much more sophisticated internal
politics than we would have seen in previous generations of works.

Also, this will be a great movie.