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. Published: 8th February 2018 | Publisher: Penguin | Source: Bought Overall, I struggled to settle on a rating but I think a 4/5 stars is the way to go for me because it was an amazing book and the positives outweighed the flaws.Links with an asterisk (*) are Ad: Affiliate Links, which means if you make a purchase through them, I'll make a small commission at no extra cost to you. That being said, it was still manageable to get through and didn’t cause me to want to stop reading it. At times, the book just went too slow for me and I found myself just not getting enough out of the book. My main problem with this book was that I found some parts lacked pace and performance.
I don’t judge his decisions but I am definitely game for a spin-off all about him.
I felt like as soon as we reached Hinterland and the events unfolded we lost him and his character’s story line. She was not a character I particularly liked at all times, yet I didn’t care. I felt my feelings towards out main character, Alice, were consistent of a love-hate conflict. There was a lot of unknowing going through this book, and the element of suspense that left was truly something I loved about this book. I loved the aspect of the fairy tales belonging to an alternative world and the darkness they portrayed. I thought the plot to this story was so original and well done. I enjoyed this book as a whole, however, after looking back at it in preparation for this review, I realised there were actually some parts I didn’t enjoy so much.įirst of all, to start off on a good note, I want to talk about the plot line. To rescue her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother’s tales began… Alice’s only clue is the message left behind: Her own mother is stolen away – by a figure who claims to come from the supernatural world where the fairy tales are set. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her isolate estate – the Hazel Wood – Alice discovers how bad her luck can really get. Alice has spent most of her life on the road, always one step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at her heels.
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