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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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Mar 22, 2021 akacya ❦ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audience-young-adult, own, format-audiobook, genre-fantasy

A spooky fairy tale concept, perfectly written and executed.

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Apr 07, 2021 Diana rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I absolutely love fairy tale retellings, and my favorite has to be the ones using Alice in wonderland. Overall, this is definitely the most different interpretation that I've read.

The Genre: I'm not the biggest fan of horror, so I was a little bit on the fence about reading it. As I read it, it was definitely a horror book, but I still liked it.

Not My Favorite Alice: Alice is one of my favorite literary characters, so it kind of sucked when I wasn't the biggest fan of this one. The author's in ...more

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Jun 17, 2018 ❤ Aly ❤ rated it liked it

This book took me awhile to decide how I felt about it. I had a hard time processing it. I really got into it when I was about 25%-75% in and then I just didn't enjoy it anymore. I did like the incorporating of the fairy tale aspect into the book, but I did not enjoy how slow some parts of this book were. Great idea, just wasn't a fan. I decided to go right in the middle because I did enjoy parts, but others I did not like at all.

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Feb 01, 2019 Damselflies rated it it was ok

Shelves: fantasy, ya, did-not-finish

Fairy tales - Dark - Weird

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True rating: 2.5 since I did enjoy the 2 chapters we got that were only the Hinterland stories itself and I guess I'm willing to pull it up to a 2.5 just for those 2 chapters.

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Jun 07, 2022 Isabella rated it liked it

Shelves: 2018-publication

3,5 stars.
A really interesting Alice in Wonderland retelling, that has more in common with a "Alice in Horrorland". I really liked the first part, but I didn't realise the book was almost finished by the time they reached the Hinterlands. The pacing was in fact so off that I have to retract one star, which is a shame. But, all in all, I very much enjoyed The Hazel Wood. ...more

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