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A review by bnryan95
The Night Country by Melissa Albert
3.0
I remember really enjoying The Hazel Wood. The problem is that I read it almost four years ago, so it took me a little bit to remember what the heck the story was about. It helped when I finally broke down after like 50 pages and read a plot summary for a refresher.
Anyway. These books are good. They're fairy tales, but not. They're creepy, sometimes so much so that they get confusing. The descriptions of NYC were often too gritty that they were unpleasant for me as a setting. I understand that was the point, it's apparently just not my cup of tea.
I'm sort of bummed that Finch and Alice's stories didn't merge sooner so they got more scenes together, but ah well. I feel like the mystery of whether the other stories were dissolved and Alice is only alive because people of our world loved her and rooted her there was a really great way to end it. Finch being chosen by the Night Country to be a spinner when he loved travelling through other stories so much was also great.
Anyway. These books are good. They're fairy tales, but not. They're creepy, sometimes so much so that they get confusing. The descriptions of NYC were often too gritty that they were unpleasant for me as a setting. I understand that was the point, it's apparently just not my cup of tea.
I'm sort of bummed that Finch and Alice's stories didn't merge sooner so they got more scenes together, but ah well. I feel like the mystery of whether the other stories were dissolved and Alice is only alive because people of our world loved her and rooted her there was a really great way to end it. Finch being chosen by the Night Country to be a spinner when he loved travelling through other stories so much was also great.