Hollow World by Michael J. Sullivan

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Title: Hollow World
Author: Michael J. Sullivan
Pages: 430
Published: April 8th 2014

Summary: The future is coming...for some, sooner than others.
Ellis Rogers is an ordinary man who is about to embark on an extraordinary journey. All his life he has played it safe and done the right thing but faced with a terminal illness he’s willing to take an insane gamble. He’s built a time machine in his garage, and if it works, he’ll face a world that challenges his understanding of what it means to be human, what it takes to love, and the cost of paradise. He could find more than a cure for his illness; he might find what everyone has been searching for since time began…but only if he can survive Hollow World.

MY REVIEW

Hollow World is a story about a man named Ellis who creates a time machine because he finds out that he has a terminal illness. He takes a chance in hopes that the future holds a cure for the illness. Instead of going 200 years in the future he ends up going 2,000 years into the future. Along the way Ellis finds what it’s like to be in love, learns deceit and ultimately learns survival in a different world.
I stumbled upon Hollow World through Kickstarter, and I was intrigued by the plot line. Anything that has to do with time travel always peaks my interest, but this had a different twist to it. I am pleased that I helped supported this novel because I loved everything that there was about Hollow World. I have never read Michael’s work before, but now I will look into his previous works. I fell in love with the idea of Hollow World being a real place. It was described beautifully, and it was a place you wanted to go.

I loved the characters development through the story. Here stood Pax who only knew life before he met Ellis, but between the two of them they formed a friendship that lead to different possibilities. Every character had such depth to them even the bad guys.
Hollow World definitely isn’t for everyone because Michel does touch on some difficult subjects like God, faith, gay rights, suicide, but he does so with tact and in some ways makes you question your own self views.

Hollow World is much like the Time Machine by H.W. Wells and A Brave New World. In a lot of ways I find it better than the Time Machine which I had a hard time reading. This book kept me guessing and had the perfect plot twists to go with it. I can’t wait to see where this novel goes and hope it goes well with the support he received.






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