A review by yelgnal
Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

5.0

In 2015, Stephen Hawking (as a 3D hologram) was asked what the cosmological effects of Zayn leaving One Direction were, to which he replied: “Finally, a question about something important. My advice to any heartbroken young girl is to pay close attention to the study of theoretical physics. Because one day there may very well be proof of multiple universes. It would not be beyond the realms of possibility that somewhere outside of our own universe lies another different universe, and in that universe, Zayn is still in One Direction. This girl may like to know that in another possible universe, she and Zayn are happily married.”

I think about this once-in-a-generation mind giving reverence to a young person's emotions and anxieties all the time, and I have gotten that same warm feeling over, and over, and over again reading these books. Magic and science and humor and love are everywhere and I am so grateful that I live in a universe in which I get to read these stories and share them with young people.

Spoiler

“I bet they love him more than you think. And if they don’t now, they will. When they get older and smarter, they’ll know who he belonged to, even if they don’t know they know. That’s how it works with friends like [stuffies], who have been so dearly loved. They wear that love like an invisible coat. It never comes off, it’s always there, and in the quiet moments, you can feel it. Wolfram and Guntram will feel it one day." Jupiter North is so Stephen Hawking coded.