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?
I loved the introduction to The Darkest Part of the Forest.
It captivated me with a mystery and lovely words and I was intrigued from the
start wondering who the boy with horns on his head was and why he was in a glass
coffin. I was surprised that this book was set in a modern time with a fantasy twist
and not in a fantasy world setting. It was different and unexpected, but I liked
it.
One thing that I wasn’t to sure about were the flashbacks in
the beginning. They were needed to understand Hazel, the main character, more
and what her situation was, but I did not like them that much. I would have
preferred a different approach to understanding Hazel’s situation. It was around
page 100 where things got interesting. The mystery of the horned boy was
revealed, things were revealed that rocked Hazel to her core, and her enemies
made themselves known. This is when the action started to pick up. It didn’t
really have any until closer to the end, but it's worth the wait. The buildup
was so important. The relationships in this book took me by surprise too. What
happened with Ben and Hazel's relationships threw me through a loop, but I
loved it.
Honesty, I started this book and put it down for about three
days. It's one of those books you have to know will get better as it goes
along. In the end, I liked this book. It has a different feel to it from the
start featuring a town that knew Fey surrounded them, had a "glass"
coffin with a sleeping horned boy inside, and a girl who made a bargain with
the Fey king. I will be the first to tell you that this book is slow in the
beginning. It has a lot of description and little dialogue, which didn't keep
me interested all that much, but once you get past those first few chapters,
things start to pick up, odd things begin happening, and Hazel starts to search
for answers. In the end, I loved how Hazel, Ben, Jack and Severin ended up. It
was such a satisfying ending. This book had action and mystery along with adventure
and a little romance. I feel like this story is similar to the Need series by
Carrie Jones and Wings series by Aprilynne Pike in terms of adventure and fey
people, and if you liked those books then you might like this one too. All in all, I give this book three out of
five stars.
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