The Darkest Part of the Forest
Author: Holly Black
Publication Date: February 5th 2015
Publisher: Indigo
~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for.
Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. The faeries’ seemingly harmless magic attracts tourists, but Hazel knows how dangerous they can be, and she knows how to stop them. Or she did, once.
At the center of it all, there is a glass coffin in the woods. It rests right on the ground and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives. Hazel and Ben were both in love with him as children. The boy has slept there for generations, never waking.
Until one day, he does…
As the world turns upside down, Hazel tries to remember her years pretending to be a knight. But swept up in new love, shifting loyalties, and the fresh sting of betrayal, will it be enough?
First things first The Darkest Part of the Forest is
completely charming and holy crap, I ship this book. I don't know where it
changed for me, from thinking a three to four, that's not a full blown five.
It's my first Holly Black, so maybe it's the writing, the enchanting feel, the
characters, the story itself, or the story within a story, or the magical way
everything just is. I'll tell you one thing, I'm not a lover of Fae books, I've
tried a few of them but they're not my thing as such. So it takes a lot, and I
mean a lot for me to get into it, and I got sucked in, so you win, book. You
win.
