![]() ![]() ![]() I recommend this book if you just want your teen to read, but not if you are wanting them to gain real knowledge or a strong role model. ![]() With The Hazel Wood, debut novelist Melissa Albert weaves a literary spell over her readers, using the elements of fairy tales. Don’t get too caught up in the warnings of bad language, while it IS there- the uses are not glaring. Our review: Parents say ( 6 ): Kids say ( 10 ): Fairy tales and folklore drive the plots of many modern novels, but it takes a special kind of magic to create such a witty, suspenseful, and insightful novel as this one. ![]() Tell your teen to keep google search ready for some of the items she mentions. The story was interesting enough to keep reading, but stalled out occasionally on overly descriptive paragraphs that didn’t really move the story along, or matter that much to what you really needed to know. Finch seemed to be the only one I cared to feel invested in. There is negative judgement placed on both poverty and wealth, which somewhat degrades the characters and makes nearly everyone in the book somewhat petty or shallow. Too hard nosed to be a positive role model. Otherwise, I’m not a fan of Alice, I find her to be selfish rather than strong. Melissa Albert must have one heck of a nose, because I have never read a book that so often described how things smell, most especially when the descriptive words used are items I’m fairly sure a large percentage of teens have never smelled, much less are aware they exist. ![]()
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