It’s a shame the rest of the book couldn’t live up to my expectations. I give The Hazel Wood 2.75/5 stars, and that’s really only because I liked the dark fairytales from Alice’s grandmother’s book, Tales from the Hinterland.
I think because this book is so hyped, I had really high expectations going into it, which made me all the more disappointed when I couldn’t get into it. Overall the book felt slow, and dragged on forever in the first 2/3 of the book, and then the end felt so rushed and like everything was being tied up hastily without much thought for the story. There are a lot of parallels to Alice in Wonderland, and at times it felt like it drew too much influence from other works. I think that this story will appeal to many readers, but it wasn’t for me. In fact, I almost had to force myself to finish it just so that I could enter the new year on a clean slate and not in the middle of any books. I never found myself needing to read this book to find out what would happen. I started reading this book a little bit before Halloween, and didn’t finish it until the very end of the year.
It took me a long time to read this book, and once I finished, I wasn’t all that impressed. The Hinterland is nothing like Wonderland, and Alice most definitely does NOT want to fall down the rabbit hole, but if she is to save her mother, that’s exactly what she’ll have to do. It is a story full of mystery, intrigue and horrors you don’t want to imagine. The Hazel Wood is not the kind of fairytale that you were told as a child. 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.
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. Alice’s only lead is the message her mother left behind: “Stay away from the Hazel Wood.”Īlice has long steered clear of her grandmother’s cultish fans. 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. 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.
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