Synopsis:
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.
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.
My review:
This book is a perfect mix of modern world and dark fairy tales that
have somehow gone missing form our busy lives. If you look at the history of
fairy tales most of them started out full of death and darkness and shadows and
over time became the nice, good-wins-against-evil type that we know and love
today.
The Hazel Wood goes back to those shadowy roots. Alice thinks she’s just
a normal girl, growing up with bad luck following her and her mum Ella around.
But when her mum gets kidnapped and a page from her estranged grandmother’s
book of fairy tales is left behind as a message to Alice; things go from bad to
worse pretty quickly.
Armed with the only nearly-friend she has, they set out on a dangerous
road to find the Hazel Wood as Alice believes that’s where her mother was
taken. But on this journey her whole world is turned up-side-down and Alice
finds herself right in the middle of one those tales that her mother has tried
so hard to keep from her.
It’s a fabulous, exciting book, with hints of magic and good
old-fashioned Grimm-like tales.
Thank you very much to the author and NetGalley for letting me read this
book in exchange for an honest review.
My rating: 5/5
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