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The Hazel Wood (The Hazel Wood, #1)

Melissa Albert

Start date: January 1, 2019

Finish date: January 31, 2019

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Dec 23, 2018 Emma rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ya, fantasy, fairy-tale-re-tellings

I wasn’t bowled over, the premise was better than the actual book. I enjoyed the first half more than the second half: once the Hinterland was reached I realised I wasn’t very invested in what was happening.

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Feb 27, 2019 Kim rated it really liked it

This is a lovely fantasy book. The story is about a girl Alice who lives with her mom Ella and they are constantly chased out of their home by bad luck. The story follows Alice on a sort of self-discovery after a turning point in the book. I felt the adventures were detailed enough to be fantastical but not unnecessarily so. I’m on the fence about the ending.

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Apr 04, 2018 Penny rated it liked it

An interest take on a modern day Grimm's fairytale. The protagonist was relatable but also bluntly honest and sometimes a bit harsh (even for my standards), and the storyline had so many twists and turns I thought I'd break my neck trying to follow along. Overall a fun read but one I won't be going back to over and over again. Toward the end the story shifted so hard it was tough to remain interested and the finale was anticlimactic and therefore unsatisfying. A lot of loose ends in this story b ...more

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Jun 11, 2018 Keri (BooksWithKeri) rated it really liked it

It's been a while since I wrote a review and I feel like starting with The Hazel Wood - a book that helped me get back into reading - is a fantastic way to begin!

I am a lover of fairytales and even more so a lover of fairytales that have been turned on their heads. The Hazel Wood delivers on multiple levels in this.

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Jul 07, 2019 Amanda rated it liked it

3.5 stars is a bit closer to how I really feel about this book. It was all over the place constantly. It was a almost dead in some chapters and straight chaos in others. Oddly enough, it wasn’t horrible. Just weird.

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