The Hollow Places, Kingfisher
3.0 Stars
4-15-2025

In this novel a non-union employee falls down and bangs her knee on concrete while working overtime at her job. Unable to take sick days or vacation days, and having neither health insurance nor worker's comp nor a living wage, her untreated and unrested bruise/sprain cascades into a crippling knee injury and leaves her to face a lifetime of pain, debilitation, and economic and gait precarity. A searing indictment of late-stage capitalism in America.

Kingfisher does Annihilation/Control/Stephen King. This is fine, the world building is fine+, but the MC's patter started to wear on me by about the half-way point in the book.