The Hazel Wood
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Books had always felt like the cure to her loneliness, but lately she'd wondered whether they were the cause of it, too.
Magic was a thing with teeth and a history as old as the world.
Rage and time were the only currencies left to her, and she used them.
There's magic born out of pure will, voiceless. No, not pure: will muddied and thickened with grief and terror, and love in all its forms.
The air shimmered with the ghosts of our younger selves, our secrets, our heads side by side on the wooden floor.
The memories blossomed and withered, and now they belonged only to me.
So. Magic. It is the loneliest thing in the world.
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Secrets. Lies. Bad choices. Dangerous magic. . . . This is Our Crooked Hearts, a contemporary fantasy "so precise and enthralling that the only explanation is that Albert herself is a witch" (Booklist, starred review)
On the way home from a party, seventeen-year-old Ivy and her soon-to-be ex nearly run over a nude young woman standing in the middle of a tree-lined road. It’s only the first in a string of increasingly eerie events and offerings: a dead rabbit in the driveway, a bizarre concoction buried by her mother in the backyard, a box of childhood keepsakes hidden in her parents’ closet safe. Most unsettling of all, corroded recollections of Ivy and her enigmatic mother’s past resurface, with the help of the boy next door.
What if there’s more to Ivy’s mother than meets the eye? And what if the supernatural forces she messed with during her own teen years have come back to haun
Book details
- First published
- 2022
- Author
- Melissa Albert
- Genre
- Fantasy
- Goodreads rating
- 3.72 (13k ratings)
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