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textbook$ The Hazel Wood: A Novel Free Onlinetextbook$ The HazelWood: A Novel FreeOnlineDescriptionAmazon.com My favorite books, especially those that lurk in well-trod genres like young adultfantasy, are those tales that sink a grappling hook in your chest and drag you through a maze ofplot twists and surprises until you're hollowed out and yet supremely satisfied at the final page.The Hazel Wood, a creepy, abrasive, and marvelous debut novel, does just that. Teenager Aliceknows fairy tales aren't real, though they certainly have affected her own life: Decades ago hergrandmother penned a slim volume of brutal fairy tales set in the fictional Hinterland and thenpromptly shut herself off from the world in her hidden estate. Alice and her mother have been onthe road ever since, rarely staying in one place for more than a few months. But when Alice'smother disappears, taken by people who bear a nightmarish resemblance to the characters in hergrandmother's stories, Alice turns to Hinterland superfan and sorta-friend Ellery Finch to help hertrack down her mother and her grandmother's long-lost estate. Alice blazes with a rage and agrace that spurs her and the reader through the weird and brambly paths that lead to the truthbehind her grandmother's dark stories and Alice's own childhood. Mesmerizing and menacing,The Hazel Wood rings with a voice and an authenticity driven by a talented author who distills intostorytelling magic the moments of power and helplessness spawned by the realization that theworld is not as we imagined it to be. â€”Adrian Liang, Amazon Book Review Read more Gr 9Upâ€”Alice Proserpine's mother Ella was raised on fairy tales amid the cultlike fandom surroundingthe release of Tales from the Hinterland, a collection of grim fairy tales that, in the 1980s, brieflymade Alice's grandmother Althea Proserpine a celebrity. Instead of fairy tales, Alice has highwaysas she and her mother constantly move around hoping to outrun their eerie bad luckâ€”somethingthat seems much more likely when they learn that Althea has died alone on her estate known asThe Hazel Wood. Everything isn't as it seems, and soon after, Alice's mother is kidnapped, leavingnothing except a warning for Alice to stay away from The Hazel Wood. The teen reluctantly enlistsher classmate and not-so-secret Hinterland fan Ellery Finch, who may or may not have ulteriormotives for helping, to share his expertise on the fairy tales. The path to the Hazel Wood leadsAlice straight into the story of her family's mysterious past. Albert's standalone fantasy debut has anarration in the vein of a world-weary noir detective who happens to be a teenage girl.Resourceful, whip-smart, and incredibly impulsive, Alice also struggles with her barely containedrage as circumstances spiral out of her control. Her singular personality largely excuses the lack ofcontext for much of her knowledge and cultural references that hearken more to a jaded adult than
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