Hazel, a local high school student, is in love with the town's biggest tourist attraction, a fairy prince who has slept for generations in a glass coffin in the forest. This isn't a secret rather it's a tourist attraction that provides the citizens with a healthy source of income (although the visitors do occasionally get eaten by the more dangerous fairies). The Darkest Part of the Forest is bestselling author Holly Black's triumphant return to the opulent, enchanting faerie tales that launched her YA career.įairfold is a contemporary American town long beset by fairies. Hazel knows the horned boy will never wake.Īs the world turns upside down, Hazel has to become the knight she once pretended to be. But as Hazel grows up, she puts aside those stories. Since they were children, Hazel and Ben have been telling each other stories about the boy in the glass coffin, that he is a prince and they are valiant knights, pretending their prince would be different from the other faeries, the ones who made cruel bargains, lurked in the shadows of trees, and doomed tourists. Hazel and her brother, Ben, live in Fairfold, where humans and the Folk exist side by side. It rests on the ground, and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives. Set in the same world as The Cruel Prince! A girl makes a secret sacrifice to the faerie king in this lush New York Times bestselling fantasy by author Holly Black.
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