An addictive thriller crossed with the darkest of fairytales, guaranteed to keep you up all night . . .
Melissa Albert is the New York Times and indie bestselling author of the Hazel Wood series (The Hazel Wood, The Night Country, Tales from the Hinterland) and a former bookseller and YA lit blogger. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and included in the New York Times list of Notable Children's Books. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
A lush and enchanting tale. Albert effortlessly draws on a wide
range of literary references and builds a world where magic really
does emerge from pages and where books are not just figurative but
literal doors. Dreamy and disturbing in equal measure, it's the
perfect antidote to a grey winter's day.
*Irish Times*
Albert's legion of fans will relish her return to the bloody,
terrifying, seductive world of her debut and the inventive
brilliance of her storytelling.
*Guardian*
Darker, bloodier and even stranger than THE HAZEL WOOD, THE NIGHT
COUNTRY invites the wolf from the forest inside your home. A
sinister jewel of a novel, like splitting a pomegranate and finding
the inside filled with blood and rubies, every sentence of this
book thrilled and chilled me to the bone.
*Melinda Salisbury, bestselling author of The Sin Eater's
Daughter*
A charming, mysterious fable that unpacks what it means to be a
story and whether we are all simply the stories we hear and
tell.
*Cassandra Clare, author of the Mortal Instruments series*
What Albert renders on the page is audacious: with resounding
success, she keeps a firm grip on her characters and their stories,
and her prose weaves a magic of its own, animating the
ever-expanding fantastical premise through lyrical language,
striking metaphor, and a mastery of tone that forces readers to
feel the magic along with the underlying emotional stakes.
*Booklist*
Melissa Albert deftly weaves her magic once again between our world
and the fairy tale realm of the Hinterland. The Night Country is a
new modern classic filled with wondrous delights and daring forays
into the dark. Not to be missed!
*Kim Liggett, author of The Grace Year*
The Night Country is so deliciously creepy?the kind of puzzle box
nightmare you have to see through to the end. One of the most
unputdownable books I've read in a long time.
*Emily X. R. Pan, author of The Astonishing Color of After*
Praise for The Hazel Wood
This eerie debut YA novel puts such a terrifying twist on classic
bedtime stories, you'll not sleep a wink
*Heat Magazine*
Simultaneously enticing and fearsome, much like the Hazel Wood of
the title ... insidiously beautiful
*Guardian*
A bewitching, elegant blend of contemporary thriller and dark
fantasy
*Observer*
MAGICAL, MESMERISING AND INVENTIVE
THE HAZEL WOOD KEPT ME UP ALL NIGHT . . . as I fell completely into
the dark and beautiful world within its pages. Terrifying, magical,
and surprisingly funny, it's one of the very best books I've read
in years
A WINDING, CREEPY, INSIDIOUSLY DELICIOUS NOVEL. UTTERLY SPECTACULAR
- I read it in one sitting
THIS BOOK WILL BE YOUR NEXT OBSESSION. Welcome to the Hazel Wood,
where bad luck is a living thing, princesses are doomed, and every
page contains a wondrously terrible adventure - it's not safe
inside these pages, but once you enter, you may never want to
leave.
Darker, bloodier and even stranger than THE HAZEL WOOD, THE NIGHT
COUNTRY invites the wolf from the forest inside your home. A
sinister jewel of a novel, like splitting a pomegranate and finding
the inside filled with blood and rubies, every sentence of this
book thrilled and chilled me to the bone.
*Melinda Salisbury, bestselling author of The Sin Eater’s Daughter*
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