Alice and her mother have always been on the run. She became a recluse, shutting herself away in Hazel Wood, her grand estate located in a rural, unmarked area in upstate New York. After the book’s initial success, however, Althea never wrote anything else. All she knows is that her grandmother penned a book of twisted fairytales entitled “Tales from the Hinterland”. The lowdown: Alice has never met her grandmother, Althea Proserpine. Besides, look at that gorgeous cover! How can you seriously pass it up? Here we go…”īut don’t fret, my dear friends! There is a girl named Alice to gets sucked into another world and that is where the similarities end. She likes the name Alice – that’s cool! But you know that there were readers out there who opened that cover flap, saw the name Alice and were like, “Oh ( excessive eye-roll). Naming the main character Alice was just a poor decision on Albert’s end. Here’s the thing, “The Hazel Wood” is not an “Alice in Wonderland” retelling. While I realize that there will be those who will try, they should be aware that I will most probably hate on them a little bit for it. I mean, you can’t do anything to it that it hasn’t already done to itself and it’s already weird enough without a Tim Burton inspired rewrite. Every author, anyone who has even dreamed of becoming an author, anyone who has ever picked up a pen/pencil or who has sat in front of a keyboard should know by now that you don’t mess with Alice. First off, I know that you’re lying (your poker face isn’t as great as you think it is), but I want you to know that understand your concerns. This is an ‘ Alice in Wonderland’ retelling isn’t it? C’mon. I swear! Why do you always ask questions you already know the answers to?) But I know what you’re thinking, “Jaime. So we have a main character named Alice and there’s a fairytale world, The Hinterland, that she has to find her way to via the Hazel Wood ( Of course it’s to rescue a loved one.

Into the hazel wood