![]() ![]() Melissa Albert’s writing debut embraces the dark aspects of fairy tales. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother’s tales began. Her mother is stolen, by a figure who claims to come from the cruel supernatural world from her grandmother’s stories.Īlice’s only lead is the message her mother left behind: STAY AWAY FROM THE HAZEL WOOD. Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels.īut when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate – the Hazel Wood – Alice learns how bad her luck can really get. ![]() They’re set in a place that has no rules and doesn’t want any.” Ellery Finch And they don’t happen for a reason, or in threes, or in a way that looks like justice. There’s just this harsh, horrible world touched with beautiful magic, where shitty things happen. ![]()
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