Books like The Hollowing

The first book was like a mix of Braveheart and Excalibur with burly dudes chopping off pieces of each other and with some mythical and mystical creatures popping up. The second book was more like Inception with layers of consciousness stuff and a bunch of "wow the author is eating tons of LSD moments" but was a little lacking in the fun department, but book four (I skipped book three the book of short stories, I'm not a short story guy) was a return to the fun-ness that was book one. This one was like Jurassic Park meets Mythago Woods (there is even a brief scene with velociraptors) in that scientists are running around in the woods with their equipment trying to figure out just what the heck the woods are all about and helping a guy who has no idea what is going on try to find his son. There is some time displacement stuff, there is some challenging the notions of who and what you thought of characters from stories from our past, and some very real-feeling character interactions that have to do with family and relationships and love vs loss. The series as a whole is shaping up to be one of my favorite fantasy series of all time and this one was as awesome for me as book one was, just for different reasons.