The Hazel Wood (Hazel Wood Series #1) by Melissa Albert
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Web ID: 8514221A Slow Start for Me But Great Ending
I love twisted fairytales and spooky stories without happy endings. This was certainly catering to that. The beginning was a little slow for me but was worth pushing through.
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Excellent Start; Slow Finish
Alice is a loner of a seventeen-year-old. She and her mother, Ella, have been on the run for as long as Alice can remember. They only stay in one place until their "bad luck" catches up w/ them. Ella has married a wealthy man and she and Alice live w/ him and his daughter. Alice attends a private school, and finally befriends a fellow student, when he figures out that Alice's grandmother is Althea Proserpine, the author of "Tales of the Hinterland," a collection of VERY dark fairy tales. But then, Alice's mother is kidnapped, and Alice and her friend, Finch, set out in search for her. Finch is convinced that the Hinterland is real, and that Ella has been captured by it. He believes they need to find the Hinterland, and find Althea's house, the Hazel Wood, inside the Hinterland in order to rescue Ella. Do Finch and Alice find Ella? Or does the Hinterland defeat them? Is it even real? I had been looking forward to reading this for a while, but saved it for spooky season. "The Hazel Wood" isn't scary, though; it's a dark fairy tale, and should have been right up my alley. In fact, the first almost 50% was excellent, but when Alice - the main character - finally enters The Hazel Wood, the book went off the rails for me. The story just feels more like a fever dream than a fairy tale. And really serious, frightening things happen to Alice and Finch while they are trapped in the dark fairy tales. Again, the "living inside a fairy tale" wasn't as interesting as I had hoped, and far more dangerous than I expected. I had to slog through the rest of the book. I'd like to rate it higher than 3 stars, but I just can't, b/c I only enjoyed the first 50%.
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it wasn’t even decent of a book
This book wasn’t something I payed for, i had received it as a gift from my cousin. He had gifted it to me because he didn’t like it, and neither did I. I read up to 6 chapters to give it a chance, but there wasn’t much of a chance to begin with. The novel was very flat, the characters weren’t made well, and it kept going on and on about one topic for several pages. Time to gift it again..
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LOVED THE DARK TWIST FAIRY-TALES
I BOUGHT THIS BOOK A FEW WEEKS AGO AND IM GLAD I DID. IT DEFIANTLY INDULGED ME WITH MY LOVE FOR FAIRY TALES AND ALSO MY LOVE FOR DARK TWISTED STORIES. I WOULD & HAVE RECOMMENDED THIS BOOK!
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