Review: The Darkest Part of the Forest

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The Darkest Part of the Forest The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book was gifted to me by one of my dearest friends. She told me I would like this book and I didn't. I loved it and gobbled it up so fast I needed time to even start to think about some semblance of a review. There is so much magic in the story telling that you wonder if Holly isn't Fae herself.

Hazel and her brother Ben have ben close since they were little. Their parents had to grow into parenting so Hazel and Ben looked after each other. They live in an odd town full of superstition and rightfully so since their forest hides all manner of magical creatures. There is a children's rhyme that no one will finish for fear it will summon the monster of the forest. People wear charms and fragrances to keep from being spirited away or tricked by The Fair Ones.

Since long before they were born a boy, not quite human, lays sleeping in an eternal sleep enveloped by a glass casket that can't be broken. While Hazel and Ben lay on top of the casket they make up stories about the hauntingly perfect boy and tell him all their secrets. When Hazel was still young she had an experience that made her dream of being a knight-like in the stories she read about King Arthur with her brother. She resolved that they must save the boy in the glass casket, their prince.

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