What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
Every part of it is exciting and filled with sparkling energy. The writing is sublime and the storyline spooky, strange and amazing. The hazel wood is an urban fantasy firmly rooted in the everyday world with delightfully creepy and bizarre characters... Read More
If you're a fan of fairy tales and enjoy something a little darker than your standard prince and princess stuff, then this is a must-read. This book has the same uncanny feeling of a classic fairy tale. When this fully gets underway it's incredibly gr... Read More
Melissa albert takes some of the typical fairytale tropes and twists them into recognisable, but scarier versions. Albert’s writing is lyrical and evocative and i found myself finally making use of the ‘highlight’ function in my kindle app.
Absolutely devoured this book. It's one of those books that makes the whole world around you disappear, which is a rare thing that should be treasured.
She has a strong voice, and i totally sympathised with her character. I adored all the pop-culture references she would make. They seem to be after alice!
Cons
The hazel wood is so fuzzy and incomprehensible that i found that i just didn't care about it. While the premise of the book had promise, i think it is overwrought. If you love incomprehensible prose, this book is for you.
The fairytale concept was overplayed. Althea's tales are pointless, making the story itself pointless. Finch is a token poc with his wallet as his only redeeming qualities.
Highlights
Quality
Alberts writing style is very atmospheric perfect for the fairy tale aspect of the story especially when we get to the hinterla... Read More
I loved the way albert seamlessly manages to combine the contemporary with the fantasyfairy tale in the hazel wood
It felt a touch dorothy in oz mixed with the feeling of falling into a nightmare
Despite being a little disappointed with the second half of the book i still think this is a really great read
Packaging/appearance
Alicethreetimes was a great story and fit into the story perfectly
I really liked the character alice and her relationship with ella but i thought she sort of resented her at first so was surpri... Read More
Normally i dont like when authors do this but in this story it just helped make alice so much more real and it separated her fr... Read More
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My only gripe was that the main antagonist was brought in at the end kinda out of nowhere
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Lewis – is one of the most riveting teenadult crosspollinations to have been published in quite some time
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You start reading a book expecting one thing a mystery a challenge a straightforward syfy but end up being pulled along with alice into an unknown scary parallel world
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After her grandmother’s death alice doesn’t understand her mother’s reaction but knows that something in the letter informing them of althea’s death involved her although her mother wouldn’t speak of it
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Then things suddenly go from bad to worse when her whole family goes missing and the only clue is a page from hinterland alice threetimes
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Eventually both audrey and harold turn up saying people called the hinterland took ella and harold refuses to help alice believing it was her that did it even threatens her at gunpoint and the only friend she has now is finch
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While alice needs all the help she can get to find her mother she doesn’t want to drag finch into anything as she isn’t sure how deep the rabbit hole goes movie reference for all you old school people – let me know if you got it in the comments
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Alice soon comes to realise her childhood wasn’t as settled as she thought and the reasons they moved a lot was because of strange things happening to her that scared ella but things seems to be looking up when they manage to track down a copy of hinterland but not before a strange bird appears carrying a new clue for alice and finch
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