What irritated me the most was the big name/company drops.

She was too trusting of others at times where she should have been the most terrified. At times you just wanted to slap some sense into her for being so vapid. She was flawed from the beginning and didn’t grow as other characters would have. The main character, Alice was a bit ostentatious. The more quotes from the fairytale shared between the characters, the more you would rather read that instead of this. But I wish that maybe this book was just that disturbing fairytale. (Heavy sarcasm) (Maybe an eye roll) It left me with a lot of questions of why!?ĭeep into the story, we come to find out about a deeply horrorish fairytale that may hold the clues to Alice’s life or one she never knew about. And we all know how much I enjoyed that book. With the hints of Alice and her crazy adventures in Wonderland, it reminded me a little bit of Furthermore. I even have it tattooed on my body, but I wish authors would leave Alice in Wonderland alone! 🙄🙄 We all know my infatuation with Alice in Wonderland. I was almost fooled into preordering this book and I’m glad I wasn’t persuaded.

“When Alice was born, her eyes were black from end to end, and the midwife didn’t stay long enough to wash her.”ĭon’t let this beautiful, dark, and shimmery cover fool you. 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.

The hazel wood series order