Alice fühlt sich seit jeher vom Unheil verfolgt. Ihr Leben ändert sich dramatisch, als ihre geheimnisvolle Großmutter, die Märchenerzählerin Althea Proserpine, stirbt und kurz darauf ihre Mutter verschwindet. Zurück bleibt eine kryptische Nachricht: „Halt dich fern von Hazel Wood“. Getrieben von dem Wunsch, ihre Mutter zu finden und ihre eigene Vergangenheit zu entschlüsseln, begibt sich Alice auf eine Reise in die Dunkelheit und zu den Wurzeln ihrer Familiengeschichte. Hazel Wood, der Ort, an dem alles begann und der eng mit den düsteren Märchen ihrer Großmutter verbunden ist, scheint der Schlüssel zu sein, um das Geheimnis zu lüften. Je näher Alice Hazel Wood kommt, desto mehr offenbart sich eine Welt, die ihre kühnsten Träume und schlimmsten Albträume übersteigt. Sie entdeckt eine unheimliche Wahrheit, die alles, was sie über sich und ihre Familie zu wissen glaubte, in Frage stellt. Die Grenzen zwischen Realität und Märchen verschwimmen, und Alice muss sich den dunklen Kräften stellen, die Hazel Wood beherrschen. Um ihre Mutter zu finden und sich selbst zu befreien, muss sie tiefer in diese magische und gefährliche Welt eintauchen, als sie je für möglich gehalten hätte. Die düstere und fesselnde Welt entführt in das Erbe dunkler Märchen und ungelöster Familiengeheimnisse. Die Geschichte entfaltet sich in den urbanen Schatten New Yorks und führt auf eine unvergessliche Reise an den Ursprung eines alten Fluchs. Meisterhaft
Melissa Albert Bücher
Dieser Autor schreibt langsam und liest schnell. Seine literarische Produktion ist sorgfältig durchdacht, während seine Lesegewohnheiten unersättlich sind. Dieser Ansatz spiegelt sich in der Tiefe seiner sorgfältig ausgearbeiteten Werke wider. Er lädt die Leser ein, sich zu vernetzen und Gedanken auszutauschen.







Tales From the Hinterland
- 176 Seiten
- 7 Lesestunden
Journey into the Hinterland, where every page tells a wondrously terrible adventure . . . In this brutal and beautiful world a young woman spends a night with Death, brides are wed to a mysterious house in the trees, and an enchantress is killed twice - and still lives. But it's not safe inside these pages, and once you enter, you may never want to leave . . . The highly anticipated collection of stories set in the creepy, haunting fairytale world first introduced in Melissa Albert's internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed Hazel Wood series.
NEW FROM MELISSA ALBERT - INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HAZEL WOOD House of Hollow meets A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, THE BAD ONES is a page- turning supernatural thriller about four mysterious disappearances in a town haunted by a sinister magical history - and one girl searching for the truth. A GAME GONE WRONG. A MISSING FRIEND. A TOWN OF BURIED SECRETS . . .Goddess, Goddess, count to five. In the morning, who's alive?One town. One night. Four people gone. Nora's best friend, Becca, is one of the lost. As Nora tries to piece together the truth, she uncovers dark events in her high school's history and a string of coded messages Becca has left for her. These clues point to another missing girl thirty years previously and a sinister urban legend: a goddess figure, who played an eerie role in Nora and Becca's own childhood games . . . As Nora struggles to unravel the mystery, it's clear there are dark forces at work in her town - and they're willing to stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried deep. Praise for Melissa Albert: 'I couldn't put it down' Karen M. McManus'Taut, haunting, and potent as a witches brew' Krystal Sutherland'Every line reads like an incantation' V.E. Schwab schovat popis
IN OUR FAMILY, MAGIC RUNS DEEP, BUT SECRETS RUN DEEPER. Ivy's summer starts with a series of disturbing events - unnatural offerings appear on her doorstep and she's haunted by fragmented memories from her childhood. Soon she grapples with a dark secret that she's always known - but never faced - that there is more to her mother Dana than meets the eye . . . Dana's story starts the summer she turns sixteen, when with the help of her best friend and an ambitious older girl, she embarks on a major fling with the supernatural. As the trio's aspirations darken, things soon take a more sinister turn. Years after it began, Ivy and Dana's shared story will come down to a reckoning among a mother, a daughter and the dark forces they never should've messed with.
The Night Country: A Hazel Wood Novel
- 384 Seiten
- 14 Lesestunden
The New York Times bestselling sequel to Melissa Albert’s beloved The Hazel Wood! In The Night Country, Alice Proserpine dives back into a menacing, mesmerizing world of dark fairy tales and hidden doors. Follow her and Ellery Finch as they learn The Hazel Wood was just the beginning, and that worlds die not with a whimper, but a bang. With Finch’s help, Alice escaped the Hinterland and her reclusive grandmother’s dark legacy. Now she and the rest of the dregs of the fairy tale world have washed up in New York City, where Alice is trying to make a new, unmagical life. But something is stalking the Hinterland’s survivors—and she suspects their deaths may have a darker purpose. Meanwhile, in the winking out world of the Hinterland, Finch seeks his own adventure, and—if he can find it—a way back home...
"The highly anticipated sequel to Melissa Albert's beloved, New York Times bestselling debut The Hazel Wood! In The Night Country, Alice Proserpine dives back into a menacing, mesmerizing world of dark fairy tales and hidden doors. Follow her and Ellery Finch as they learn The Hazel Wood was just the beginning, and that worlds die not with a whimper, but a bang. With Finch's help, Alice escaped the Hinterland and her reclusive grandmother's dark legacy. Now she and the rest of the dregs of the fairy tale world have washed up in New York City, where Alice is trying to make a new, unmagical life. But something is stalking the Hinterland's survivors-and she suspects their deaths may have a darker purpose. Meanwhile, in the winking out world of the Hinterland, Finch seeks his own adventure, and-if he can find it-a way back home.."--
