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The Hazel Wood
by Melissa Albert
I am in LOVE with this book. This novel filled me with a religious zeal to convert everyone to it. I want to go to the Hazel Wood. I want to live in the Hinterland. This book kept me captivated from the start. At first it seemed a contemporary tale set in modern times yet written so lushly that I found it enchanting from her wording alone. I absolutely swooned from the way she uses "ocean" as an adjective and makes danger and darkness sound appealing. The dark and twisted starts to poke through fairly quickly and then eventually takes over with disturbing twists. This is a dark fairytale about dark fairytales, think Brothers Grimm and not Disney. The stories within the story were creepy and strange and haunting and I think it would be brilliant for Melissa Albert to actual publish them in a separate book.
It's difficult to describe this novel but I want to try because I want to put it in the hands of everyone who walks into the bookstore looking for a different kind of fantasy novel. It's that compelling and that unique. The main character, Alice, has spent her life on the run with her mother, Ella, who disappears and Alice knows it has something to do with her grandmother's tales of the Hinter Land so goes off in search of her and then it really gets weird and Alice in Wonderland like. I felt mesmerized while reading this, it is very atmospheric and magical and deliciously disturbing while being utterly enchanting.
This book is going on my list of all time YA favorites. The reviews are quite mixed, which surprised me, perhaps it was too creepy for some? But for my dark and twisted little soul, this was truly magical and I just want to bask in the spell it's cast over me.
It's difficult to describe this novel but I want to try because I want to put it in the hands of everyone who walks into the bookstore looking for a different kind of fantasy novel. It's that compelling and that unique. The main character, Alice, has spent her life on the run with her mother, Ella, who disappears and Alice knows it has something to do with her grandmother's tales of the Hinter Land so goes off in search of her and then it really gets weird and Alice in Wonderland like. I felt mesmerized while reading this, it is very atmospheric and magical and deliciously disturbing while being utterly enchanting.
This book is going on my list of all time YA favorites. The reviews are quite mixed, which surprised me, perhaps it was too creepy for some? But for my dark and twisted little soul, this was truly magical and I just want to bask in the spell it's cast over me.