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A review by kaygo2490
The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
4.0
This story follows a brother and sister that lives in a town with fairies. A Prince sleeps in a glass casket, a channeling is a best friend and deep in the depths of the forest a monster so fearsome, that feeds on sadness resides.
It's a wonderful magical realism tale on a magical creatures that live with community and how that affected their day to day life.
One of our main character, Hazel, that desperately wants to be a knight. Her brother that wants to be in love and play music and their friend that battles with the desire to be normal and being different.
One of the things I like about this book is the diversity. It was really refreshing to have a person of color as one of the main love interest, yes! That gave me so much joy! It was awesome to have a woman that wanted to be a knight and took up the mantel to save the town, save her parents, save her brother and save the prince! It was awesome to have gay character have a happy ending....that's all I'll say! Yay!
At the start of the book it got really confusing. There was point where I felt like too many things were going on and nothing made a lick of sense. Also, though this was multi pov, it was mostly in Hazel's pov and when it wasn't in Hazel's pov, the other characters were talking about her. Unfortunately, it made get annoyed of her for a large part of the book, especially since there was an epic love story going on and we hardly got to see any of it!
Still, this was a good book on discovering the many different layers of yourself. Loyalty and friendship.
4/5 stars.
It's a wonderful magical realism tale on a magical creatures that live with community and how that affected their day to day life.
One of our main character, Hazel, that desperately wants to be a knight. Her brother that wants to be in love and play music and their friend that battles with the desire to be normal and being different.
One of the things I like about this book is the diversity. It was really refreshing to have a person of color as one of the main love interest, yes! That gave me so much joy! It was awesome to have a woman that wanted to be a knight and took up the mantel to save the town, save her parents, save her brother and save the prince! It was awesome to have gay character have a happy ending....that's all I'll say! Yay!
At the start of the book it got really confusing. There was point where I felt like too many things were going on and nothing made a lick of sense. Also, though this was multi pov, it was mostly in Hazel's pov and when it wasn't in Hazel's pov, the other characters were talking about her. Unfortunately, it made get annoyed of her for a large part of the book, especially since there was an epic love story going on and we hardly got to see any of it!
Still, this was a good book on discovering the many different layers of yourself. Loyalty and friendship.
4/5 stars.