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The Darkest Part of the Forest

  • Holly Black

3.80

5 ratings

Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for.

Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. The faeries’ seemingly harmless magic attracts tourists, but Hazel knows how dangerous they can be, and she knows how to stop them. Or she did, once.

At the center of it all, there is a glass coffin in the woods. It rests right on the ground and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives. Hazel and Ben were both in love with him as children. The boy has slept there for generations, never waking.

Until one day, he does…

As the world turns upside down, Hazel tries to remember her years pretending to be a knight. But swept up in new love, shifting loyalties, and the fresh sting of betrayal, will it be enough?

Genres

  • Children's fiction
  • Magic, fiction
  • Fairies, fiction
  • Love, fiction
  • Fairies
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Magic
  • Romance fiction
  • Fiction
  • Love
  • YOUNG ADULT FICTION
  • Fairy Tales & Folklore
  • Family
  • Siblings
  • Fantasy
  • LGBT
  • Romance
  • Magi
  • Älvor
  • Love stories
  • nyt:young-adult-e-book=2015-12-20
  • New York Times bestseller
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About the author

  • Holly Black

    born 10 November 1971

    4.12

    327 ratings · 374 works

Editions

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    Hachette Audio

    Jan 13, 2015

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    Hodder & Stoughton

    2016

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    Revised paperback edition

    Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

    2019

  • Edition cover

    Little, Brown Young Readers

    Jan 27, 2015

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First edition.

Little Brown and Company

2015

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    Little, Brown and Company

    Jan 19, 2016

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    Orion Publishing Group, Limited

    2015

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    Orion Children's Books

    2015-02-05

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    Turtleback Books

    Jan 19, 2016

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    Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

    2016