The Hazel Wood
Author: Melissa Albert
Pages: 330
First Published: January 2018
Genre: YA Fantasy
Book Descriptions (From Good Reads): Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: her mother is stolen away―by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set. Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: “Stay away from the Hazel Wood.”
Alice has long steered clear of her grandmother’s cultish fans. But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a Hinterland superfan who may have his own reasons for wanting to help her. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began―and where she might find out how her own story went so wrong.
I really don't have much to say about the book. IT was ok.
Characters were ok, nothing to get me attached all that much but did not necessarily hate anyone. In the beginning, Alice's anger irked me and I saw them as exaggerated but then it all made sense.
The world of fairytales is very interesting though it was not very explored nor was the storyteller talked in a lot of o details (the world was good but it was not explained so much, maybe in the sequels we will get more information).
There was a bit of mystery and the big reveal you were able to figure it out as the details of Alice and Finch's journey were being told to us, but still, it was well done.
There was surprising no romance in this story for our protagonist even if initially it looked like it would blossom between Finch and Alice.
The ending was a little bit too convenient for everyone, it was almost too easy after the whole build up. I think it was an ok book, is there's a continuation I will pick it up as well.
I gave it a 3.5 stars rating, it was an enjoyable read, I can see this being as a stand-alone but who knows maybe the sequel will give us more surprises.
Pages: 330
First Published: January 2018
Genre: YA Fantasy
Book Descriptions (From Good Reads): Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: her mother is stolen away―by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set. Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: “Stay away from the Hazel Wood.”
Alice has long steered clear of her grandmother’s cultish fans. But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a Hinterland superfan who may have his own reasons for wanting to help her. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began―and where she might find out how her own story went so wrong.
I really don't have much to say about the book. IT was ok.
Characters were ok, nothing to get me attached all that much but did not necessarily hate anyone. In the beginning, Alice's anger irked me and I saw them as exaggerated but then it all made sense.
The world of fairytales is very interesting though it was not very explored nor was the storyteller talked in a lot of o details (the world was good but it was not explained so much, maybe in the sequels we will get more information).
There was a bit of mystery and the big reveal you were able to figure it out as the details of Alice and Finch's journey were being told to us, but still, it was well done.
There was surprising no romance in this story for our protagonist even if initially it looked like it would blossom between Finch and Alice.
The ending was a little bit too convenient for everyone, it was almost too easy after the whole build up. I think it was an ok book, is there's a continuation I will pick it up as well.
I gave it a 3.5 stars rating, it was an enjoyable read, I can see this being as a stand-alone but who knows maybe the sequel will give us more surprises.
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