Lovely Violent Things: Hollow's Row 2

He's the devil. And she's his wicked game.
Book two in the Hollow's Row series.

Halen:
The night I gave in to Kallum Locke, I sold my soul to the devil. Now that devil has returned for me, a daemon siphoning off what soul I have left.

The Harbinger killer has descended on Hollow's Row amid an active case, where I've been hired as a consultant to profile two killers. One offering gruesome sacrifices to obtain an ancient philosophy, and the other a bad omen from my past.

A dark truth hovers at the edge of my memories-but is it real, or a trick by the chaos magician himself, meant to trap me in his web of lies and corruption.

Kallum is too consuming, his clashing green-and-blue eyes staring into my depths, demanding I feel the frenzy he teased from my soul.

I have to escape him.

Kallum:
I've tasted Halen St. James, my muse of heartbreak. I've sank my teeth into her tender flesh, lapped at her tears, marked her as mine...

So I'll be damned if I let her go now. Not this time-not when I'm so close to revealing our truth. It's easy to be tricked when you believe your own lies. And, oh, how my little Halen loves her pretty lies.

She's obsessed with naming me the killer. She's afraid of me, but I'm not the danger she should fear.

The moth is attracted to sweetness-and my little Halen is the sweetest damn thing.

Halen needs her big bad villain to protect her.

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Published Apr 3, 2023

340 pages

Average rating: 7.9

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kategryson

Sep 02, 2025

9/10 stars

omg I love this book

this was an amazing book! Absolutely phenomenal. Kallum and Halen have such great chemistry and great job with the twists!

Josie the book goblin

Aug 22, 2025

6/10 stars

This picked up right where the first one ended and I'm glad for that. There was no missing information jumping into the second book. This one continued with all the good stuff I enjoyed in the other. I had a prediction where I thought I figured out who the overman was but I was wrong. The person I thought it was turned out to be an ahole but not the killer. I still have a few other ideas and predictions but I look forward to the next one. I really liked getting some more of Kallums history. We get flashes of Halens backstory often but not much his. Also getting some answers about the Harbinger finally! My only issue and the reason I dropped a star was because I kept getting annoyed with Halen going back and forth with the war inside she was fighting about how she felt about Kallum. Clearly he is not a good man there is no question about that. Also I wanted a bit more information on the missing and recovered people.

April B.InkAudioDragon

Dec 17, 2024

8/10 stars

I swear I still don’t know how I feel about this trilogy. Lol It’s such a chaotic ride. Maybe after the third it will put all my thoughts and emotions together finally. 🤷🏻‍♀️

cmdziura

Jul 25, 2024

4/10 stars

I had a hard time with one. There are too many boring and confusing parts. I appreciate the author trying to bring psychology and philosophy into the novel, but all it did was make me confused on what was actually happening.

I do appreciate the plot twist in there though! That gives my rating a small boost.

Honestly, if I was reading this I would have given up on this, but I could listen to Joe Arden's voice forever and that's the only reason I kept reading/listening - but I don't think I can finish these series. I feel zero connection to the characters, so, sorry, I am officially abandoning them.

Brynn Stacey

Sep 09, 2023

10/10 stars

I didn't think this book was going to be able to match the tension of book 1, but it honestly had even more. I described Lovely Bad Things as Season 1 of True Detective meets a philosophy Davinci Code and I stand by that. This one just gets wilder.
Kallum

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I didn't think this book was going to be able to match the tension of book 1, but it honestly had even more. I described Lovely Bad Things as Season 1 of True Detective meets a philosophy Davinci Code and I stand by that. This one just gets wilder.
Kallum

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