![]() Some things were easy to remember, like Alice and her anger and Ellery Finch (I still hate the name Ellery, I mean, it rhymes with celery) and leaving the Hinterland to our world. ![]() But with more and more reviews coming out praising The Night Country I knew I had to read it for myself.īut with a two year gap between The Hazel Wood and its sequel, I was bound to forget some things. So when I heard about The Night Country I was hesitant to read it because of that disappointment. I’m also a sucker for books where characters travel into the fictional stories they’re reading, and it was one of my main criticisms for the book. ![]() Something with blood and teeth, something that sticks inside your brain, that beckons you forward into the dark. I’m a sucker for fairy tales, the darker the better and Albert was able to keep the tropes and darkness of fairy tales while also turning them into something completely new. ![]() It’s been two years since I read Melissa Albert’s debut The Hazel Wood and for the most part I enjoyed it. “If you ever have chance to bear witness to a dying world, don’t,” (Albert 115). ![]()
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