The Hazel Wood: A Novel (The Hazel Wood, 1)

The Hazel Wood: A Novel (The Hazel Wood, 1)

Welcome to Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood?the fiercely stunning New York Times bestseller everyone is raving about!Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice?s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. 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 figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set. Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: ?Stay away from the Hazel Wood.? Alice has long steered clear of her grandmother?s cultish fans. But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a Hinterland superfan who may have his own reasons for wanting to help her. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began?and where she might find out how her own story went so wrong. Don?t miss the New York Times bestselling sequel to The Hazel Wood, The Night Country, out now! Review New York Times bestsellerSeven starred reviewsIndies? Choice Book Award FinalistNew York Times Notable YA Book of 2018Boston Globe Best Book of the YearWall Street Journal Best Children?s Book of the Year#1 ABA Indie Next PickABA Indies Introduce SelectionJunior Library Guild SelectionALA?s Best Fiction for Young Adults ListSeventeen Best YA Book of the YearThe Guardian Best Children?s Book of the YearObserver Best Children?s Book of the YearEntertainment Weekly Top 10 YA Novel of the YearBustle Best YA Book of the YearBookPage Best Book of the YearBank Street Best Children?s Book of the YearIndigo Best Book of the YearBooks-a-Million Best Book of the YearGoodreads Choice Award FinalistPublishers Weekly Flying StartSeattle Public Library ?10 Young Adult Books We Love 2018?Romantic Times Seal of Excellence WinnerLonglisted for the Hugo/Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book?The Hazel Wood starts out strange and gets stranger, in the best way possible. Albert seamlessly combines contemporary realism with fantasy, blurring the edges in a way that highlights that place where stories and real life convene, where magic contains truth, and the world as it appears is false, where just about anything can happen, particularly in the pages of a good book. It's a captivating debut.? ?The New York Times Book Review ?An original and imaginative fairy tale: thrilling, fascinating, and poignant in equal measure. Grade: A-.? ?Entertainment Weekly, Best New Books?Insidiously beautiful, this is the opposite of escapist fantasy; it is a story about the imagination?s power to loose atrocity into the (mostly) law-abiding confines of the real.? ?The Guardian?A darkly brilliant story of literary obsession, fairy-tale malignancy, and the measures a mother will take to spare her child.? ?The Wall Street Journal, Best Children?s Book of the Year?An eerie, assured first novel. Albert occasionally entwines the haunting tales of the grandmother?s book through this mesmerizing narrative, creating a fantasy as lush and twisty as ivy.? ?The Washington Post?One of those rare young adult fantasy novels that holds a self-contained world in only a few hundred pages. If the novel?s heroine is a teenage girl, then her story will appeal to readers of all ages, with its intrigue and strange fairy tale magic and very grown up writing.? ?Esquire?A can?t-miss, dark, and creepy new take on fairy tales that will have you glued to the page until the very end.? ?BuzzFeed ?This extremely creepy, wondrously original and beautifully written book conjures up a dark, bloody netherworld of fairytales and enchants and enthralls from the first sentence to the final page.? ?The Buffalo News ?A contemporary fantasy that dwells in an atmospheric, intertwining world of terrifying circumstances; a