I’m a part of another book’s blog tour! 🖤
I hadn’t heard of The Waking Forest by Alyssa Wees, but the moment I read the synopsis, I knew this book would be a book for me.
I wasn’t disappointed, to say the least. 🖤🖤🖤
Check out this spellbinding book, and don’t miss the giveaway at the end of this post!
The Waking Forest by Alyssa Wees
Publisher: Delacorte
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy
Synopsis
Pan’s Labyrinth meets The Hazel Wood in this novel about a girl with terrifying visions and a wish-granting witch whose lives collide in the most unexpected of ways.
The waking forest has secrets. To Rhea, it appears like a mirage, dark and dense, at the very edge of her backyard. But when she reaches out to touch it, the forest vanishes. She’s desperate to know more–until she finds a peculiar boy who offers to reveal its secrets. If she plays a game.
To the Witch, the forest is her home, where she sits on her throne of carved bone, waiting for dreaming children to beg her to grant their wishes. One night, a mysterious visitor arrives and asks her what she wishes for, but the Witch sends him away. And then the uninvited guest returns.
The strangers are just the beginning. Something is stirring in the forest, and when Rhea’s and the Witch’s paths collide, a truth more treacherous and deadly than either could ever imagine surfaces. But how much are they willing to risk to survive?
About the Author
In between training in ballet and watching lots of Disney movies, Alyssa grew up writing stories starring her Beanie Babies. She earned a BA in English from Creighton University and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago. Currently she works as an assistant librarian in youth services at an awesome public library. She lives in the Chicagoland area with her husband and their two cats.
Check out Alyssa on her website or over on Goodreads, Twitter, or Instagram!
Review
Rating:
This book. This book was breathtaking. It was magical and dark and ethereal and spellbinding. It was three enchanting stories converging into one. Ugh. My heart aches in the best of ways. 🖤
FAVORITE QUOTES
🖤 “I have many faces, and I want to wear them all.”
🖤 “I’m not a doctor, but I don’t think any of that is because of your magic. It sounds like anxiety. It sounds like you have panic attacks. And that’s nothing to be ashamed of. It doesn’t make you weak or not able to handle things.”
🖤 “She could exist without him, dance on her own, quite well, in fact–but it was he who brought her back around to herself, somehow. Transformed her line into a circle.”
🖤 “The burning scream inside you hurts less when you keep moving, keep going, keep reaching, in whatever way you can.”
🖤 “He is a wish I want to come true again and again and again.”
🖤 “Sometimes I feel like I’m trapped in the eye of a storm…Like I’m the only quiet, still thing in a world that won’t stop spinning.”
🖤 “I don’t know much, but I do know this: I am an inhale. And he–he is an exhale. And we will always be together, each of us right behind the other, linked, until the very last breath.”
🖤 “I know this is terrifying for you…But it will end. All things end, eventually. Even the very best of stories. And the worst of them too.”
🖤 “Beauty is poison to monsters…They love beauty, covet it, but they can’t have it.”
🖤 “Some dreams are dangerous, the ones you try the hardest to forget. Because then they grow gaunt and bladed, and will come back clawing up your throat.”
🖤 “Because my name is cradled in your bones. Because your heart sounds the same as mine. Because a sky is just unremarkable darkness without the stars. It’s empty.”
🖤 “Sometimes secrets are secret for a reason, because to know them will hurt us more than to keep them hidden.”
BOOK LINKS
Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository | Kobo | iBooks | IndieBound
GIVEAWAY
Enter the giveaway to win a signed copy of The Waking Forest by Alyssa Wees!
- Start Date: March 30, 2019
- End Date: March 36, 2019
- US Only
BOOK TOUR
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