Tales From the Hinterland
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Grimm's Fairy Tales meets Ransom Riggs in this deeply creepy, gorgeously illustrated collection of twelve original pitch-dark fairytales, from international bestselling author of The Hazel Wood, Melissa Albert.
Journey into the Hinterland, where every page tells a wondrously terrible adventure . . .
In this brutal and beautiful world a young woman spends a night with Death, brides are wed to a mysterious house in the trees, and an enchantress is killed twice - and still lives.
But it's not safe inside these pages, and once you enter, you may never want to leave . . .
The highly anticipated collection of stories set in the creepy, haunting fairytale world first introduced in Melissa Albert's internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed Hazel Wood series.
Featuring beautiful interior illustrations by Nick Hayes.
Praise for Melissa Albert:
'Magical, mesmerising and inventive.' Karen McManus, bestselling author of One of Us is Lying
'You'll not sleep a wink' Heat
'The Hazel Wood kept me up all night . . . Terrifying, magical, and surprisingly funny, it's one of the very best books I've read in years' Jennifer Niven, author of All The Bright Places
'Insidiously beautiful' Guardian
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Albert brings The Hazel Wood's fictional fairy tale volume to life in 12 finely wrought but gruesome stories of captive wives, abused women, and their bloody revenge. Framed by Tierney's intricately inked woodcut-style illustrations, the fictional Hinterlands and their fairy tale logic shine when illuminating aspects of troubled family dynamics: "Hansa the Traveler" sets its cloistered protagonist questing to save her star mother and confronts the cost of being a rescuer, while "The House Under the Stairwell" offers a somber, heartfelt reflection on the work of repair. Weaker entries, however, collapse into repetitive revenges or horror genre despair, and Albert's allegories lose power as the dynamics and relationships they stand for fail to grow, broaden, or change. Fans of Emily Carroll, Catherynne M. Valente, and Albert's own work will thrill to this volume's fairy tale cadences and inventive, deep-shadowed imagery, but the parade of voiceless, mutilated, broken women may leave readers wanting range and depth. Final art not seen by PW. Ages 12 up.
