![]() It is in the overlap and slippage between the “real world” and the “fairy tale world” that the true value in The Hazel Wood lies and I found that the book was at its best when it was describing moments when the two worlds coincide, such as when one of the characters from Alice’s grandmother’s story “comes to life” and is casually walking around New York City. “I remembered less from my own life than I did from the books I read.”įrom the very outset of this novel, Melissa Albert weaves a weird and wonderful story which is reminiscent of the darker side to so many beloved fairy tales. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother’s tales began…” ![]() Alice’s only lead is the message her mother left behind: STAY AWAY FROM THE HAZEL WOOD. Her mother is stolen, by a figure who claims to come from the cruel supernatural world from her grandmother’s stories. ![]() But 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. ![]() “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. ![]()
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