Also, sorry this is technically Tuesday. Procrastination.
But you're not here for that. You're here for BOOK REVIEW #1!!!
Today's thing is The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black.
Fairfold is a small town, nestled right next to deep forests holding... faerie. All kinds of faerie that love to trick and use and kill humans. Every few years, a tourist goes missing and is found, dead, somewhere in a lake or forest or pit, or they are never found.
Why are there tourists in a small town? It's not just because of the Folk. It's because of one Faerie, that lays immobile in a glass case.
He is like a human, wearing an ancient suit, but with horns. He has laid in the casket for hundreds of years. Teenagers have partied, tourists have gawked, strangers have come alone just to talk to him. Plenty of people have tried to break the casket, but nobody has ever succeeded.
Ben and Hazel are a sibling pair, both with a history with the Folk. Ben has an infatuation with a certain one of them, and Hazel has a secret tie with them all that she keeps secret from Ben. And both have a shared history, one of fighting and killing the faeries they came across while marching through the forest. Hazel fell in love with it and can't give it up. Ben's musical curse, put onto him by a faery, worries him too much. But both are tangled much, much deeper in the web of the faerie than either realizes...
Let's get this straight: I don't read fantasy. Not my genre. But I fell in love with this book. Why? Because I feel like I've met every single character in real life, and like I've been to Fairfold and seen dead tourists and faerie. That's the kind of book I love. I really got a feel for everything and everyone in Fairfold. Annnnd I got really involved and fell in love with Ben and Hazel. Yes, the brother/sister relationship was kind of unrealistic (zero sibling rivalry issues, basically, or like half an issue).
It talks about fantasy, reality, love, relationships (homo as well as hetero), family, uniqueness, bloodloss.... basically amazing.
If you're threatened by the blood and murder parts, don't be. A paragraph or two is, well, descriptive, but don't worry. It's more the idea of bloodloss than real bloodloss they talk about.
tl;dr Fantasy for people who don't like fantasy and who love books where you get emotionally involved. 9.5/10.
Thanks for reading, thingologists. Here's to our first book review *holds up glass*
Today's thing is The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black.
Fairfold is a small town, nestled right next to deep forests holding... faerie. All kinds of faerie that love to trick and use and kill humans. Every few years, a tourist goes missing and is found, dead, somewhere in a lake or forest or pit, or they are never found.
Why are there tourists in a small town? It's not just because of the Folk. It's because of one Faerie, that lays immobile in a glass case.
He is like a human, wearing an ancient suit, but with horns. He has laid in the casket for hundreds of years. Teenagers have partied, tourists have gawked, strangers have come alone just to talk to him. Plenty of people have tried to break the casket, but nobody has ever succeeded.
Ben and Hazel are a sibling pair, both with a history with the Folk. Ben has an infatuation with a certain one of them, and Hazel has a secret tie with them all that she keeps secret from Ben. And both have a shared history, one of fighting and killing the faeries they came across while marching through the forest. Hazel fell in love with it and can't give it up. Ben's musical curse, put onto him by a faery, worries him too much. But both are tangled much, much deeper in the web of the faerie than either realizes...
Let's get this straight: I don't read fantasy. Not my genre. But I fell in love with this book. Why? Because I feel like I've met every single character in real life, and like I've been to Fairfold and seen dead tourists and faerie. That's the kind of book I love. I really got a feel for everything and everyone in Fairfold. Annnnd I got really involved and fell in love with Ben and Hazel. Yes, the brother/sister relationship was kind of unrealistic (zero sibling rivalry issues, basically, or like half an issue).
It talks about fantasy, reality, love, relationships (homo as well as hetero), family, uniqueness, bloodloss.... basically amazing.
If you're threatened by the blood and murder parts, don't be. A paragraph or two is, well, descriptive, but don't worry. It's more the idea of bloodloss than real bloodloss they talk about.
tl;dr Fantasy for people who don't like fantasy and who love books where you get emotionally involved. 9.5/10.
Thanks for reading, thingologists. Here's to our first book review *holds up glass*
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