![]() ![]() The revival of the modern day fairytale continues its journey in this wonderful and surprising YA novel. ![]() This is Holly Black doing what she does best: with gorgeous prose that flows beautifully, complicated female characters and a story of back and forth, The Darkest Part of the Forest is an elaborate modern fairytale that subverts genre expectations. This is a book of tales and curses and love. ![]() This is a book of lies and lost memories. * THE NEW YORK TIMES *Ī rollocking story of evil faeries and teenage angst in modern day USA * THE BOOKBAG * a wickedly entertaining mash-up of genre conventions and enthusiastic subversions in which the perennial adolescent desire to be seen as normal takes on a whole new meaning. I can guarantee that anyone will be surprised by its originality and strength * THE GUARDIAN * These ominous lines by poet Kenneth Patchen serve as an epigraph to my new favorite faerie-based urban fantasy, by an old favorite authorHolly Black. A must read for anyone who enjoys fantasy or twists of faery tales. Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we’d be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest. ![]()
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