Ben is about to discover how deep his family ties are in The Hollow. Awakening the old stories of The Horseman.īut The Horseman isn’t the only danger in those woods, and there’s much more to the old tales. Playing in the woods, scrapping with other kids and generally getting up to the usual mischief young boys enjoy, Ben trails his grandfather and townsmen one eventful day to discover the body of a young lad, headless and handless. Born female and identifying as male, Ben is fighting against the expectations of him to be the good mannered little girl his grandmother and the rest of The Hollow demands. The Horseman based upon Sleepy Hollow, the story is told in first person present by Bente. Alas they cannot all be perfect and for the first time I haven’t awarded a 5 star goodreads rating. I’m first in to request ARCs from Titan and always preorder the signed editions from Forbidden Planet too. Repeat visitors to An Average Life will know by now how much I love Christina Henry. Could the Horseman be real after all? Or does something even more sinister stalk the woods? But then Ben and a friend stumble across the headless body of a child in the woods near the village, and the sinister discovery makes Ben question everything the adults in Sleepy Hollow have ever said.

Fourteen-year-old Ben loves to play Sleepy Hollow boys, reenacting the events Brom once lived through. Twenty years after those storied events, the village is a quiet place. Brom says that’s just legend, the village gossips talking. Not even Ben Van Brunt’s grandfather, Brom Bones, who was there when it was said the Horseman chased the upstart Crane out of town. Everyone in Sleepy Hollow knows about the Horseman, but no one really believes in him.

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