the hazel wood chapter sampler melissa albert

Illustrations note Includes black-and-white chapter-opening illustrations. Melissa Albert has created a vivid storybook world in The Hazel Wood full of twists and turns and gritty fantasy that bleeds into our reality. An Amazon Best Book of January 2020: Melissa Alberts The Hazel Wood first. Her debut novel, The Hazel Wood, was on The New York Times bestseller list for 36 weeks. This one had a “Once Upon a Time” feel to it, mixed with “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.” Althea’s stories, only a few of which the reader gets to hear, were dark, creepy and without happy endings – a theme that is carried throughout this book. Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Epigraph Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6. 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. When Ella is kidnapped, Ellery helps Alice look for her and the two of them discover more about Althea’s fantasy world – the Hinterwood – then they ever could have imagined. Their nomadic lifestyle hasn’t been easy, but it appears to be normalizing when Ella marries Harold and she and Alice move in with him and his daughter in New York.Īt school Alice reluctantly becomes friends with a rich hipster kid, Ellery, who also happens to be a Althea Proserpine super-fan. Althea’s life, what little Alice knows of it, is as fairytale-esque as her stories and filled with a mysterious wonder that Alice longs to know more of – much to the dismay of Alice’s mother, Ella, who insists that Althea should be forgotten.Įlla & Alice have spent much of Alice’s life on the run from bad luck. Rebecca’s Pick: The Hazel Wood by Melissa AlbertĪlice has never met her maternal grandmother, famed author Althea Proserpine, though she’s dreamed of it often.

The hazel wood chapter sampler melissa albert