![]() ![]() ![]() I would firstly like to praise Black's prose throughout the novel. ![]() It is only when the horned boy awakes that events start meandering, and the siblings realise the valuableness and preciousness of trust, and blood. They feel as though they are on a different level to the mortals and tourists enamoured with the romance and mystery of the Fae, and locals have survived with pockets full of iron and oatmeal and locked doors peacefully throughout the past. All their lives they have been fascinated by an unbreakable transparent coffin deep in the woods, containing an unstirring horned boy, subject of all of Hazel and Ben's fantasies and dreams. The Darkest Part of the Forest is about siblings called Hazel and Ben, living in a town where the boundaries between Fae folk and humanity are increasingly blurring. The storyline is inventive and captivating, and I cannot comprehend how much imagination Black must have to craft something like that. However, Black has expertly weaved a story which is totally unique, fascinating and modern, almost startling in its originality and strength of plot. ![]() Faeries? Love? Sleeping princes? It's all been done before, and I know for certain that I expected a dreary fairy-tale retelling set in some rural moors or another. Reading the blurb, it is easy to expect little from this book. ![]()
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