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The Darkest Part of the Forest
The Darkest Part of the Forest
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Deborah
Sep 22, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: adventure, teen-book-club-material, civility, fantasy, world-builder-gem, romance, dark-really-dark, magic, urban-fantasy, addiction
I adore Holly Black and The Darkest Part of the Forest was the perfect, eerie Halloween read! I love all the characters, even the wild, magical forest. The main character, Hazel, and her brother Ben, begin as unsupervised, bare-foot urchins whose fantasy game of Arthurian Knights takes a savage turn when they happen upon a river witch eating the corpse of another local child. Yes, dark stuff. But awesome. Hazel hacks at the creature with her wooden sword, which fails epically, but somehow gains ...more
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Morgan
Jan 04, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction, audiobook, fantasy, young-adult, mysteries-and-thrillers, paranormal, faeries
Holly Black and faeries is (mostly) my jam. Valiant was my least favorite of the Modern Faerie Tales series, but this is kind of what I think Valiant could have/should have been in some ways. Hazel as the knight and her brother Ben as the bard was a great pairing, and how they played at saving the prince together.

My main drawback is that at the beginning things from the past are laid out in a strange and awkward order that was a bit jarring as you had to place it in the timeline while you listen ...more
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Windy Kahler
Oct 15, 2019 rated it liked it
This was more like 3.5 stars. It was a cute fairytale story; a quick read. I enjoyed that the female didn't need to be rescued and that it was LGBTQ friendly. It was just a bit too cutesy for me. It read more like a young, young adult in my opinion. ...more
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Kaylie
Sep 24, 2014 rated it it was amazing
Kristen
Oct 27, 2014 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: young-adult
Sarah Nessler
Jan 07, 2015 marked it as to-read
Andrada
Nov 10, 2019 rated it it was ok
Shelves: read-in-english, meh, fantasy, young-adult, 2019
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May 19, 2015 marked it as to-read
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Alex
Jun 20, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Marissa
Jul 06, 2016 rated it really liked it
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Aug 17, 2016 marked it as to-read
Melike
Oct 27, 2016 rated it liked it
Shelves: fantasy, ya, fairy-tales
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Oct 24, 2023 rated it liked it
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