The Night Country
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The New York Times bestselling sequel to Melissa Albert’s beloved The Hazel Wood! In The Night Country, Alice Proserpine dives back into a menacing, mesmerizing world of dark fairy tales and hidden doors of The Hazel Wood. Follow her and Ellery Finch as they learn The Hazel Wood was just the beginning, and that worlds die not with a whimper, but a bang. With Finch’s help, Alice escaped the Hinterland and her reclusive grandmother’s dark legacy. Now she and the rest of the dregs of the fairy tale world have washed up in New York City, where Alice is trying to make a new, unmagical life. But something is stalking the Hinterland’s survivors—and she suspects their deaths may have a darker purpose. Meanwhile, in the winking out world of the Hinterland, Finch seeks his own adventure, and—if he can find it—a way back home... Don’t miss Tales from the Hinterland, coming January 12, 2021!
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2 primary books3 released booksThe Hazel Wood
The Hazel Wood is a 3-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2018 with contributions by Melissa Albert.
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3.5 Stars
SO..HERE IS MY DILEMMA. This is the second book in the series.....and I still don't care about the main characters, Alice or Finch. I kind of wanted them to be more than okay to me at this point. but I liked the story in and of itself. The author has a great skill in writing or reworking a dark fairy tale. I can say that I seriously enjoyed that even more than i did in the first book. However, since i feel like now i should be somewhat more invested in the characters..at least by the end..and i wasn't.. no matter how much I liked the story itself i'll keep it at a 3.5. Also I feel like the first one read and ended as a stand alone so i didn't know where this would go. Not a bad thing. I just can't say I was super hype for anything in particular.
I don't know this one just dragged for me. I felt like nothing important happened for majority of the book.
I liked this series a lot. It was really dark & no one could be trusted, but that's okay. True fairy tales are full of darkness & shady characters who aren't what they seem. My only nitpicky note on this installment was that in the audiobook, it took a minute to figure out which character was narrating. There wasn't a clear delineation in either voice or chapter titles to make narration clear & it could have used it.
