Perks Season 5 Ep. 99 | Brooke Lauren Davis | Sinister Small Town Teen Suspense | 8-4-21

This week we talk with Brooke Lauren Davis, a debut author whose YA book The Hollow Inside offers some unique characters. There’s Phoenix, the protagonist whose mother, Nina, has led them away from Phoenix’s father and towards a man from Nina’s past named Ellis, a successful and charismatic man who Nina believes ruined her life. It’s a story about truth, trust, family, revenge, and what lengths people will go to to salvage their reputation.

Brooke started writing this book as a 16 year old growing up in Chillicothe OH, worked on it for 10 years, and then got it published by Bloomsbury Young Adult, an imprint that originally published the Harry Potter books (which is also the first book she remembers loving). Brooke now lives in Louisville KY where she is a bookseller at our local indie bookstore, Carmichael’s, when she isn’t diligently writing.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:
1- The Hollow Inside by Brooke Lauren Davis
2- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by R.K. Rowling
3- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
4- SongTeller: My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton (audiobook)
5- The Rural Diaries by Hilarie Burton (audiobook)
6- The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson
7- Dune by Frank Herbert

TV shows mentioned:
1- Dune - 2000 miniseries
2- The Detectorists - BBC - Amazon Prime
3- One Tree Hill - Hulu

Movie
1- Dune (Fall 2021)