I as already familiar with Holly from reading The Spiderwick Chronicles with my son but after reading The Coldest Girl in Coldtown I was sold on Holly Black as an author I enjoyed reading for my enjoyment too.
The Darkest Part of the Forest was really fun to read. It is a fairy tale with fairies, haunted woods and all the fantasy folks that typically in habit it, a mysterious casket with a horned boy sleeping in it, and a town full of humans. However this fairy tale isn't just a story parents tell their kids to get them to behave, it is all true!!!
Hazel and Ben are teenage siblings that live in Fairfield, a community where not just the children believe in enchanted woods, the adults do too. Hazel is a warrior and Ben has a powerful music that soothes the savage beasts.
With all this fantasy world as its backdrop The Darkest Part of the Forest is also a coming of age teen love story.
Visit the forest, you won't be sorry.
(Finished April 1, 2015)
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