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.