THE HAZEL WOOD – MELISSA ALBERT

_____ One of The Observer s Best Children s Books of 2018! Fans of Miss Peregrine s Home for Peculiar Children and The Children of Blood and Bone have been getting lost in The Hazel Wood… The Hazel Wood kept me up all night. I had every light burning and the covers pulled tight around me as I fell completely into the dark and beautiful world within its pages. Terrifying, magical, and surprisingly funny, it s one of the very best books I ve read in years . -Jennifer Niven, author of All The Bright Places —– Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice s life on the road, always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice s grandmother, the reclusive author of a 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, by a figure who claims to come from the cruel supernatural world from her grandmother s stories. Alice s only lead is the message her mother left behind: STAY AWAY FROM THE HAZEL WOOD. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother s tales began . . . —– This book will be your next obsession. Welcome to the Hazel Wood, where bad luck is a living thing, princesses are doomed, and every page contains a wondrously terrible adventure – it s not safe inside these pages, but once you enter, you may never want to leave. – Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval Realism and fantasy blue in this strange and bewitching tale The Observer Melissa Albert has created a world as dark, twisted and magical as Alice in Wonderland or Harry Potter. Will you escape the Hazel Wood?