{"id":3201,"date":"2015-03-27T10:07:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T10:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2015-04-18T15:15:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T15:15:45","slug":"the-darkest-part-of-the-forest-by-holly-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3201","title":{"rendered":"The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3228\" style=\"width: 133px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3228 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/The-Darkest-Part-of-the-Forest.jpg\" alt=\"The Darkest Part of the Forest\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let me just start off by admitting that I am a total Holly Black fangirl. \u00a0Aside from enjoying her style of writing, I appreciate\u00a0the fact that she has written fantasies on so many levels. \u00a0She is a great\u00a0go-to author for kids, tweens, and\u00a0teens\u00a0who enjoy fantasy. \u00a0<em>The Spiderwick Chronicles<\/em>\u00a0are the perfect &#8220;gateway&#8221; series for early elementary kids. \u00a0From there, they can move on to (middle grade) <em><a title=\"The Iron Trial: Book One of The Magisterium by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare\" href=\"https:\/\/librarina.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/15\/the-iron-trial-book-one-of-the-magisterium-by-holly-black-and-cassandra-clare\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Iron Trial<\/a><\/em>, and then graduate up to her YA works like\u00a0<a title=\"White Cat by Holly Black\" href=\"https:\/\/librarina.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/02\/white-cat-by-holly-black\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>White Cat<\/em><\/a>, <em>The Coldest Girl in Coldtown<\/em>, and\u00a0<a title=\"Zombies vs. Unicorns edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier\" href=\"https:\/\/librarina.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/03\/zombies-vs-unicorns-edited-by-holly-black-and-justine-larbalestier\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Zombies vs. Unicorns<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(for which she was an editor\/&#8221;Team Unicorn&#8221; commentator).<\/p>\n<p><em>The Darkest Part of the Forest<\/em>\u00a0is\u00a0a modern, feminist fairy tale. \u00a0Rather than a tale of a\u00a0girl waiting to be rescued by a prince or a knight in shining armor, this story was about a girl named Hazel who actually\u00a0WAS a knight. \u00a0Rock on! \u00a0Having grown up in Fairfold, hearing stories of the Folk and the devastation\u00a0they could bring\u00a0upon\u00a0careless humans,\u00a0Hazel\u00a0should have known better than to make a deal with the Faery King. \u00a0After waking up one morning to learn that the faery boy from the enchanted glass coffin in the woods was\u00a0awake and missing, nevertheless, it became\u00a0abundantly clear that Hazel was in way over her head. \u00a0With the help of her brother Ben and his best friend Jack, Hazel had to try\u00a0to figure out the\u00a0role she played in the faery boy&#8217;s waking and whether\u00a0there was any way to save them all from the magical mayhem\u00a0she unwittingly set into motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Let me just start off by admitting that I am a total Holly Black fangirl. \u00a0Aside from enjoying her style of writing, I appreciate\u00a0the fact that she has written fantasies on so many levels. \u00a0She is a great\u00a0go-to author for kids, tweens, and\u00a0teens\u00a0who enjoy fantasy. \u00a0The Spiderwick Chronicles\u00a0are the perfect &#8220;gateway&#8221; series for early &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}