alexawkelly 's review for:

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
3.0

Audiobook fully told me I had another hour to go and then the book was over. Surprise!

This is still such a tough book for me to rate--I thought the plot could have been a lot tighter, especially in the middle, but the parts of it that are good are SO good it makes up for the parts I found weaker. This was another book club pick by my 7-12th graders, and I'm so interested to see what they think of it, given that they haven't been terribly impressed with the other YA fantasy (A Court of Thorns and Roses and Serpent and Dove) that we've read this school year.