Melissa Albert: The Hazel Wood (2018, Flatiron Books)
Published Jan. 30, 2018 by Flatiron Books.
When the scary, magical world in her grandmother's book of dark feminist fairy tales becomes real, seventeen-year-old Alice, partnered with Ellery, an obsessed fan of the fairy tales, must enter the world to rescue Alice's kidnapped mother.
Very interesting alternate universe/portal concept. Took a very very long time for the story to resolve. I was rather done with the world and decided to skip the bonus story at the end.
Uhm, why do you all hate this book? 3,6? That's the worst rated book I read in a while. But I didn't think it was so bad? I liked the prose of the book. I liked the stories in the stories (as I always do). It reminded me a lot of winter song I think. It was scary in between. Not your standard YA book, you don't have a lot of them.
