The Hollow City

Name: The Hollow City
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Dan Wells
ISBN: 9781705209646

Author: Dan Wells

Narrator: Roger Wayne

Unabridged: 8 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/21/2020

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Psychological

Synopsis

Dan Wells won instant acclaim for his three-novel debut about the adventures of John Wayne Cleaver, a heroic young man who is a potential serial killer. All who read the trilogy were struck by the distinctive and believable voice Wells created for John.

Dan Wells returns with another innovative thriller told in a very different, equally unique voice. A voice that comes to us from the realm of madness.

Michael Shipman is paranoid schizophrenic; he suffers from hallucinations, delusions, and complex fantasies of persecution and horror. That's bad enough. But what can he do if some of the monsters he sees turn out to be real?

Who can you trust if you can't even trust yourself? The Hollow City is a mesmerizing journey into madness, where the greatest enemy of all is your own mind.

About Dan Wells

Dan Wells writes a little bit of everything, but he is best known for the Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, the first book of which is now a major motion picture. He is a cohost of the educational podcast Writing Excuses, for which he won a Hugo Award, and now helps run a yearly, week-long writing conference. In addition to novels, novellas, and shorts, he has also written and produced a stage play, called A Night of Blacker Darkness, and works as a staff writer on the TV show Extinct. He has lived in the U.S., Mexico, and Germany, and currently resides in Utah with his wife and six children and 439 boardgames.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Miranda on December 10, 2020

Michael Shipman is a paranoid schizophrenic. Or is he? After reading (and re-reading) Well's I am not a serial killer, I knew that I had to read anything this guy ever wrote. And so, here we are. We are thrust into the crazy (or not so crazy?) world of our unreliable narrator - Michael Shipman. Ever......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on September 09, 2012

Something is terribly, wonderfully wrong with Dan Wells. His superb writing skills and brilliant eye for story are all tangled up in a twisted mind that produces books of breathtaking genius that will leave you curled up on the floor sucking your thumb and crying for your mommy. Within a chapter of......more

Goodreads review by Amy on April 02, 2016

I am so conflicted about how to rate this book. The first 75% of this book was amazing. I couldn't put it down and was amazed at how real the main character felt. The last 25% felt a little lame to me - it was as if the book turned into a strange X-Files episode.......more

Goodreads review by Gavin Daphne on September 08, 2012

I can't even really sort out my feelings for this book. I can't think of anything bad to say about it other than "this isn't really my genre," so I'm giving it five stars. For the story that Dan Wells was trying to tell, this is the best possible way I can think of to tell it. It's not really a short......more

Goodreads review by Kovaxka on June 30, 2021

A John Wayne Cleaver-sorozatot nem tudtam végigolvasni, ez a könyv is elvesztett a felénél. Pedig nagyon jól indult! Amikor viszont a hallucináció-skizofrénia komplex sci-fibe fordult, már sem követni, sem értelmezni nem tudtam. A vége meg kifejezetten gyenge kliséözön. Van fantáziája a szerzőnek, d......more