Review: Fascinating at so many levels!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 15, 2013
It's been said that Fight Club is a genre of its own.  If that were true, then Hollow Dolls would be found in its category, right along side Monster.  In earlier years it may have been stuck between Sybil and Donnie Darko.  A masterpiece of subtle mental masturbation with a rampant dialogue that goes in and out of places dark, neurotic, and sick.  A story of how the cogs in the mind break down under the psychotic stress of extreme sexual abuse, even as the mind is being formed in its early child years.  With glimpses at the sickness that rendered them, and enough bloodlust to pay back a lifetime, and enough pain, and perhaps amidst it all, enough love, of the kind found among birds of a feather, they all take flight.  It is hard to believe this is Marilyn Dahl's first novel.  I look forward to her second.