For all its sharp edges and gritty no-punches-pulled humor, Hollow Kingdom is a remarkably tender story that manages to make you feel just a tiny bit jealous of the resilient cast of characters that have survived humanity's apocalypse.
And, it’s told from the perspective of a life force we’ve caged as wholly as we’ve caged ourselves, making it a poignant portrayal of the beauty we fail to see around us on an everyday basis as well as a stark glimpse of the future we are already carving out for ourselves. It’s a critical look at the impact the human ego has had on the environment and the cost we’ll leave to future inhabitants, human or otherwise, to pay. It’s less a story about the end of the world as we know it, as it is a call to liberate ourselves from our own domestication, much like that which S.T. Read Full Review >īuxton’s story about the collapse of mankind.though based around the extinction of man is not your average zombie story. Hollow Kingdom is a surprising, funny, genre-bending novel, an environmentalist parable crossed with an epic adventure story, difficult to describe and even more difficult to put down.
S.T.'s relationship with Dennis achieves pathos and an incredibly earned emotional denouement that I would have never predicted at the start of the novel. At the heart of the novel is an entertaining adventure story. What makes Hollow Kingdom special is the ease with which Buxton offsets heavy themes with humor. S.T.'s witty commentary is a highlight of the book, though so frequently profane that it resists quotation. The reader will need to possess an appreciation-or, at least, a tolerance-for copious animal puns. If this all sounds very weighty, it's important to emphasize that Hollow Kingdom is an extremely funny, occasionally silly book. In its broadest strokes, Hollow Kingdom is an environmentalist parable. Kira Jane Buxton's debut, Hollow Kingdom, offers a unique, oddly hopeful perspective on the end of human civilization.
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