The Hazel Wood pays homage When her mother is kidnapped by a mysterious figure who claims to be from the Hinterland – the dangerous supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set – she must join forces with a classmate, Ellery Finch, whose cult-love of her grandmother's fairy tales are the key to finding the realm where her.
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The race to find Ella, Ella’s backstory with Althea, Alice’s backstory with Ella, and Finch’s sharing of his own mother’s death all reveal character details indirectly. Melissa Albert.
16-adult) Pub Date: Feb.
Much of the beginning of this story, while shrouded in mystery, starts out relatively normal and bit boring, i.
”. As THE HAZEL WOOD begins, 16-year-old Alice has spent life on the move with her mother, Ella, trying to stay one step ahead of deadly streaks of bad luck. I did not enjoy reading about the journey and most of the time could not stand the main character.
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16-adult) Pub Date: Feb. .
Alice, for all her anger, toughness, and streetwise demeanor, is rocked to her core when Ella is taken; once Harold shows Alice in no uncertain terms that he wants nothing to do with Ella’s rescue.
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.
. The mother figure motif repeats throughout both the novel and the Hinterland stories, helping to support the theme of mother–child relationships. The Hazel Wood pays homage When her mother is kidnapped by a mysterious figure who claims to be from the Hinterland – the dangerous supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set – she must join forces with a classmate, Ellery Finch, whose cult-love of her grandmother's fairy tales are the key to finding the realm where her.
Jan 30, 2018 · The plot is fast paced although somewhat uneven: Most of the action resolves in the last quarter of the book, which makes the resolutions to drawn-out conflicts feel rushed. The mother figure motif repeats throughout both the novel and the Hinterland stories, helping to support the theme of mother–child relationships. Ella, Alice's mother, spent 14 years at the Hazel Wood estate before leaving with Alice. . .
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It was far more fantastic, with a bending sense of the worlds than some books I read but it reminded me a lot of Inkspell. .
Same about the plot.
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