Sierra Santiago was looking forward to a fun summer of making art, hanging out with her friends, and skating around Brooklyn.

Add The Hazel Wood to your Goodreads shelf.To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother’s tales began―and where she might find out how her own story went so wrong. But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a Hinterland superfan who may have his own reasons for wanting to help her. Alice’s only lead is the message her mother left behind: “Stay away from the Hazel Wood.”Īlice has long steered clear of her grandmother’s cultish fans. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: her mother is stolen away―by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother’s stories are set. Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. These 8 Questions Will Reveal If You’d Survive a Faerie Court.Add The Lost Sisters to your Goodreads shelf.The Lost Sisters is a companion e-novella to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince by master writer Holly Black. Half-apology and half-explanation, it turns out that Taryn has some secrets of her own to reveal. While Jude fought for power in the Court of Elfhame against the cruel Prince Cardan, her sister Taryn began to fall in love with the trickster, Locke. Sometimes the difference between a love story and a horror story is where the ending comes… We are so excited what tales Holly Black weaves for us after those jaw-dropping reveals and the shocking ending, and what she has in store for Jude, Cardan, and the rest of Faerie. But as we wait, and because we already know we’ll have a mega book hangover afterwards, here are some more dark fantasy books to devour after you read The Wicked King!

You literally saw us freak out about The Cruel Prince in real time. Is it just us, or does it feel like you’ve known Jude and Cardan forever? It’s been nearly a year since The Cruel Prince hit shelves (and the same amount of time since our countdown to The Wicked King began), and with the new year, you know it’s one of the books at the top of our TBR.

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