Kari's Reviews > The Hollow Inside

** spoiler alert ** Not your typical YA by any means and I say that with the most positive emphasis. I loved it! This book begins with a sad start and increasingly becomes something of vengeance. And Phoenix is doing it all for her Mom, Nina…who isn’t even her real mom. Nina has had a tough upbringing and some poor choices and a broken heart has led to some unspeakable trauma held in her past that she has vowed to get back at some day. And that someday is now and that someone is Ellis Bowman. So she and Phoenix set forth to make him pay for the past. Phoenix just wants love and comfort from Nina but Nina uses it to reward Phoenix for a job well done and a manipulative tool. And so the next thing Phoenix knows, she’s no longer living in the van with her mom but living inside the enemy’s home with his family to get evidence of what was done to her mom. But not everything goes according to plan and Phoenix must ultimately make the decision when she learns the real truths.