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In her "New York Times" bestseller, Albert delivers a fierce, captivating contemporary fantasy about a 17-year-old girl who must venture into the world behind a pitch-dark, cult-classic collection of fairy tales to save her mother. Illustrations.Book Synopsis
Welcome to Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood--the fiercely stunning New York Times bestseller everyone is raving about!
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."
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New York Times bestseller
Seven starred reviews
#1 Indie Next Pick
Junior Library Guild Selection
ALA's Best Fiction for Young Adults List
Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
Publishers Weekly Flying Start
"Albert seamlessly combines contemporary realism with fantasy, blurring the edges in a way that highlights that place where stories and real life convene, where magic contains truth, and the world as it appears is false, where just about anything can happen, particularly in the pages of a good book. It's a captivating debut." --The New York Times Book Review (Notable Children's Book)
"Insidiously beautiful, this is the opposite of escapist fantasy; it is a story about the imagination's power to loose atrocity into the (mostly) law-abiding confines of the real." --The Guardian (Best Children's Book of the Year)
"A darkly brilliant story of literary obsession, fairy-tale malignancy, and the measures a mother will take to spare her child." --The Wall Street Journal (Best Children's Book of the Year)
"A contemporary fantasy that dwells in an atmospheric, intertwining world of terrifying circumstances; a breathtaking dive into the magic and importance of story in one's identity. 'Story is the fabric of the Hinterland, ' one of the residents tells Alice. Another says, stories 'create the energy that makes this world go. They keep our stars in place.' If this is so, Albert's exquisite wordsmithing and story weaving have kept the stars aloft for a new generation of readers." --Shelf Awareness, starred review "Alice's sharp-edged narration and Althea's terrifying fairy tales, interspersed throughout, build a tantalizing tale of secret histories and magic that carries costs and consequences. There is no happily-ever-after resolution except this: Alice's hard-won right to be in charge of her own story." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "Highly literary, occasionally surreal, and grounded by Alice's clipped, matter-of-fact voice, The Hazel Wood is a dark story that readers will have trouble leaving behind." --Booklist, starred review "Simultaneously wondrous and horrific, dreamlike and bloody, lyrical and creepy, exquisitely haunting and casually, brutally cruel. Not everybody lives, and certainly not 'happily ever after'--but within all the grisly darkness, Alice's fierce integrity and hard-won self-knowledge shine unquenched." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review "The Hazel Wood is thoroughly, creepily captivating, with surprises I never saw coming! Such a refreshing and beautifully written inversion of the classic fairy tale-inspired story." --Kristin Cashore, author of Graceling "This book will be your next literary obsession. Welcome to the Hazel Wood, where bad luck is a living thing, princesses are doomed, and every page contains a wondrously terrible adventure--it's not safe inside these pages, but once you enter, you may never want to leave. The Hazel Wood is pure imagination candy." --Stephanie Garber, author of Caraval
"Dark, spellbinding, and magical. One of the most original books I've read in years--The Hazel Wood is destined to be a classic." --Kami Garcia, author of Beautiful Creatures "Elegant, ethereal, and beautifully brutal, The Hazel Wood is a fairy tale worth falling for. This is a dream of a book I cannot recommend highly enough. It's like falling into a nautilus shell: every time you think you've found the end, another chamber opens. Absolutely breathtaking." --Seanan McGuire, author of Every Heart a Doorway
"Absolutely mesmerizing, magical, and inventive. Hats off to Melissa Albert!" --Karen McManus, author of One of Us Is Lying
About The Author
Melissa Albert is the author of the Hazel Wood series and a former bookseller and YA lit blogger. Her work has been translated into over twenty languages. She's from Illinois and lives in Brooklyn with her family.Dimensions (Overall): 8 Inches (H) x 5.2 Inch (W) x 1.1 Inch (D)
Weight: .75 Pounds
Suggested Age: 13-19 Years
Number of Pages: 400
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Sub-Genre: Fairy Tales & Folklore, Fantasy
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Format: Paperback
Author: Melissa Albert
Book theme: Contemporary, Dark Fantasy, General
Language: English
Street Date: March 26, 2019
TCIN: 54453887
UPC: 9781250147936
Item Number (DPCI): 059-13-1471
Origin: Made in the USA
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- 6 years ago
Well. What can I say? This book was such a thrilling ride? No, not really. This book was my new favorite read of 2019? Absolutely not! This novel was exactly how I thought it would be and I am glad that I picked it up even though there were so many mixed reviews that had deterred me for a while? No, no, no, no, no, no, no!!!!!! (Was that a few no's too many? Yeah, I think so too. But just trying to mimic the author. Seeing as she loved to overuse words and over explain EVERYTHING! )
Where to begin with this. First off, let's start with the positives. The idea of this story, the overall premise a.k.a big picture, was creative. It does take a large amount of gusto to be able to put yourself out there and put your ideas onto printed paper for the world to see and to be judged. I congratulate the author for pushing through and making a passion of hers come to life. I think the author did her best to try to create a fantasy story that spoke to her in a way that she thinks would help inspire others. I tackled this novel as a buddy read which helped make it more tolerable even though it took way longer to read then anticipated. Unfortunately, this is all the positive that I can claim. It goes down from here.
From the get go and the first five-ish chapters, I was given the illusion that this was comparable to Inkheart. The author gave a whimsical and dark, mystery involving a recluse grandmother/author to our main character, Alice. Along side her mother, Ella, they are constantly running and hiding from "something", which we are never given much introduction to in the beginning. We as the reader are told that the one book that was published for Alice's Grandmother, Althea, is no longer in publication. No one has seen Althea in the longest time and she has not been in contact with Ella or Alice.
As the story progresses, we are met with numerous side characters that play minor roles in the story and to me felt more like filler. There was a complete lack of substance with this novel and the execution was far below my expectations. This author's writing style is not for me at all. She is constantly over explaining everything to the point that you have no idea what she is saying. She had on too many occasions repeated words in excess to where I felt she was trying to meet some sort of minimum word requirement for the publisher. A majority of this book is nonsensical and redundant. I almost felt that the author was trying to sound far more superior and intellectual with the words she was choosing. Which in turn made me feel as though the author didn't care enough about the reader's intellect and I was insulted.
There are a few excerpts of the "story" that supposedly Althea wrote, that the author has displayed within the novel. These I felt were filler as well and didn't provide any substance to the story. The stories themselves, while creative, were on a darker level than I would have liked for a fantasy novel. Almost read like a horror/slasher screenplay with a Tim Burton direction. I didn't enjoy any of the characters. One thing that really bothered me, character wise, was that even though Alice and her mother seemed to have a great relationship and was stated as fact on the page; Alice constantly referred to her mother by her first name. To me this shows a complete lack of respect on the child's part and it never made sense to me why the author chose this character trait for Alice.
The two star rating is due to the fact that there were no grammatical errors or typos present in the book and for the author publishing a creative idea. I will say that I also did appreciate the small illustrations present with every chapter beginning in this novel but it wasn't enough to save the story. The ending to this novel, in my opinion, was very slopping and not to my liking. I can honestly say that I am disappointed and will not be continuing with the series and I wouldn't recommend it.