The Night Country by Melissa Albert

The Night Country (Hazel Wood, #2)

by Melissa Albert

The New York Times bestselling sequel to Melissa Albert’s beloved The Hazel Wood!

In The Night Country, Alice Proserpine dives back into a menacing, mesmerizing world of dark fairy tales and hidden doors of The Hazel Wood. Follow her and Ellery Finch as they learn The Hazel Wood was just the beginning, and that worlds die not with a whimper, but a bang.

With Finch’s help, Alice escaped the Hinterland and her reclusive grandmother’s dark legacy. Now she and the rest of the dregs of the fairy tale world have washed up in New York City, where Alice is trying to make a new, unmagical life. But something is stalking the Hinterland’s survivors―and she suspects their deaths may have a darker purpose. Meanwhile, in the winking out world of the Hinterland, Finch seeks his own adventure, and―if he can find it―a way back home...

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2 of 5 stars

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This will not be the last time I give the first novel in a series a less than stellar two stars and still continue to read the series. The Night Country is proof that things will not continue to get better no matter how on point the genre is for me. Throne of Glass is the most recent series that I continued to read after not loving the first two books as much as everyone else in the YA Fantasy world.

There were moments when it felt like the story could have gone in a mystical and haunting direction but the author veered constantly, yanking the opportunity for a truly beautiful story to unfold. The writing is better than The Hazel Wood, and there is a lot more going on that I enjoyed pockets of this story.

If you loved The Hazel Wood, you’ll probably love this book. Just one of those cases where this series just wasn’t for me.

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