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" NATIONAL BESTSELLER * SIX STARRED REVIEWS * #1 INDIE NEXT PICK * A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR ( USA Today , BuzzFeed , Tor.com, PopSugar, Publishers Weekly , and more)! Secrets. Lies. Super-bad choices. Dangerous magic. . This is Our Crooked Hearts , a contemporary fantasy so precise and enthralling that the only explanation is that Albert herself is a witch ( Booklist , starred review). On the way home from a party, seventeen-year-old Ivy and her soon-to-be ex nearly run over a nude young woman standing in the middle of a tree-lined road. It's only the first in a string of increasingly eerie events and offerings: a dead rabbit in the driveway, a bizarre concoction buried by her mother in the backyard, a box of childhood keepsakes hidden in her parents' closet safe. Most unsettling of all, corroded recollections of Ivy and her enigmatic mother's past resurface, with the help of the boy next door. What if there's more to Ivy's mother than meets the eye? And what if the supernatural forces she messed with during her own teen years have come back to haunt them both? Ivy must grapple with these questions and more if she's going to escape the darkness closing in. Straddling Ivy's contemporary suburban town and her mother's magic-drenched 1990s Chicago, this bewitching and propulsive story rockets towards a conclusion guaranteed to keep readers up all night. "
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Biographisches: " Melissa Albert is the New York Times and indie bestselling author of the Hazel Wood series ( The Hazel Wood , The Night Country , Tales from the Hinterland ) and a former bookseller and YA lit blogger. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and included in the New York Times list of Notable Children's Books. She lives in Brooklyn with her family." Rezension(2): " Publishers Weekly, starred review : A tale both spellbinding and binge-worthy." Rezension(3): " School Library Journal , starred review :Albert's fast-paced storytelling is both thrilling and accessible. . Teens who enjoy drama, secrets, romance, and mysteries with a twist of magic will love this one." Rezension(4): " Booklist , starred review :This is a novel that will be devoured as well as savored. It takes risks and, magically, succeeds." Rezension(5): " The Guardian (Best New Children's Book) :This atmospheric, powerful YA fantasy is crammed with secrets, lies, and ferociously good writing." Rezension(6): " PopSugar :Sublimely creepy." Rezension(7): " The Buffalo News :This exquisitely written, skillfully plotted page-turner offers gripping suspense, unsettling scenes of magic unleashed, and a surprising love story." Rezension(8): " Kristin Cashore, author of Graceling :I loved it. No one combines magic, darkness, and the realities of being a woman the way Melissa Albert does." Rezension(9): " Courtney Summers, author ofSadie : Our Crooked Hearts feels like a freshly spun secret,electric, dangerous--and impossible to keep to yourself." Rezension(10): " Krystal Sutherland, author ofHouse of Hollow : Our Crooked Hearts is Melissa Albert at her very best,a sharp explosion of a book that's taut, haunting, and potent as a witch's brew." Rezension(11): " Nova Ren Suma, author of A Room Away from the Wolves :Melissa Albert's signature storytelling is once again pure sorcery. This book has everything I love: girls with tremendous power at their fingertips, mothers with unforgivable secrets, horrors left on the doorstep, and writing that sings and stuns." Rezension(12): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: April 1, 2022 A complicated history of witchcraft binds a mother and daughter. One night, on their way home after a tempestuous breakup, 17-year-old Ivy and her wannabe-hipster ex, Nate, nearly run over a naked woman standing in the middle of a deserted road. This catalyzing moment propels Ivy down a semiliteral rabbit hole after she begins stumbling across the bodies of dead, mutilated rabbits and cannot seem to shake the feeling of being watched. In alternating chapters, readers meet tough-as-nails Dana and her best friend, Fee. The pair welcome into their circle Marion, a beguiling rich girl who entices them with promises of magic from a mysterious grimoire. When the trio attempt a dubious spell, the results are disastrous, changing the course of their--and Ivy's--lives forever. Here, Dana's and Ivy's narratives intertwine, rocketing toward a nail-biting conclusion guaranteed to keep readers up all night. Albert's tale of mothers and daughters examines fraught choices and forgiveness against a cleverly insidious backdrop that will leave readers unable to see rabbits the same way again. While a romance is present, love in all its forms--platonic, parental, and romantic--is thoughtfully explored with gravitas and nuance. Main characters are predominantly White. Riveting, creepy, and utterly bewitching,do not miss this one. (Paranormal. 13-adult) COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(13): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from April 18, 2022 Ivy Chase, 17, is on her way home from a party when the car in which she’s riding nearly hits a naked young woman standing in the road. A bizarre encounter ensues, and unsettling events follow: a decapitated rabbit appears in Ivy’s suburban driveway, and someone else’s face flashes in her mirror. After Ivy discovers inexplicable inconsistencies in her childhood memories, she decides to confront her mother, Dana, and honorary aunt, Fee, both of whom seem capable of “unnatural things.” Upon arriving at the women’s herbal remedies shop, however, Ivy finds the business closed and a surface bloody. Albert ( The Hazel Wood ) skillfully interweaves Ivy’s increasingly urgent search for answers with chapters from Dana’s perspective, recounting her and Fee’s 16th summer. While at the teens’ fathers’ fish fry, the motherless, rudderless girls meet Marion Peretz, a lonely 17-year-old who’s fond of punk rock and dark magic. Tension and terror mount as the intelligently crafted, viscerally plotted story lines converge. Atmospherically tense prose and vividly sketched, true-to-life characters add depth, resulting in a tale both spellbinding and bingeworthy. Most characters cue as white. Ages 14–up. Agent: Faye Bender, Book Group. " Rezension(14): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: May 1, 2022 Grades 9-12 *Starred Review* Title: Craft and WitchcraftDek: With her haunting new contemporary fantasy, Albert casts a powerful spellIn 2018, Melissa Albert arrived with The Hazel Wood, an auspicious debut that handed readers a delicately cracked looking glass, giving jagged edges to the fairy tales of our collective unconscious. Albert three times lured us into the Hinterland, enchanting fans with a witches' brew of eerie urban fantasy, complex mother-daughter dynamics, and needle-tipped prose--ambitiously honing her craft along the way. Now, with Our Crooked Hearts, her first foray outside the Hazel Wood, she employs familiar themes and techniques, but at a new level of mastery, producing a standalone novel so precise and enthralling that the only possible explanation is that Albert herself is a witch.This time around, the brew features Ivy, a white 17-year-old whose suburban life is corrupted by a series of unsettling events: a naked young woman, strangely familiar, stumbling through the woods,a rabbit carcass stretched out on her driveway,a cabalistic concoction buried by her mother, Dana,lost keepsakes found in her parents' safe,and a nagging feeling that something is out of place. As Ivy begins pulling at the secrets threaded through her life, the story branches apart, introducing intermittent chapters of a teenage Dana, her hard-knock Chicago upbringing, her bond with best friend Fee, their fated meeting with the ambitious Marion, and the trio's ill-fated descent into the occult.The story casts its spell at once, ensnaring readers with incantatory language and a wickedly slow burning plot. The heavy use of metaphor--always on point--adds a subtly otherworldly layer to the text. Meanwhile, Albert carefully adds tension, one element at a time, to the mysteries surrounding Ivy, but revelation isn't the point. It's made clear, early on, that Ivy suspects her mother of being a worker--an occultist, a witch--and as Dana's backstory is layered in, as her coven develops their nascent powers and heads toward a violent break, that theory is confirmed for the reader. The tension continues to thicken, however, out of the fraught, if distant, relationship between mother and daughter and the question of what deeper secrets lie hidden, of how Dana's history ties into the missing pieces of the puzzle that is Ivy's life.Here, in the pacing and structure, Albert's meticulous craftwork shines. As the short chapters alternate between Ivy in the suburbs, right now and Dana in the city, back then, a pattern emerges of rising and sharply falling suspense. The frequent interruptions prevent either story arc from making a more dramatic climb, and while that may frustrate thirsty readers, it lends a serrated edge to the knifing tension that grows with every section. More importantly, the two time lines don't simply run parallel but rather inform one another, working in harmony as information is revealed in one thread that adds crucial context to the other. This slow-burn approach gives consistency to the pacing and keeps readers solidly under Albert's simmering spell.And while the novel is bookended by Ivy's anchoring point of view, the greater story proves to be as much Dana's as hers. It raises questions about the line between our parents' stories and our own. Here, as in life, they overlap--and even echo one another, at times. The result is a nuanced and emotionally epic exploration of the characters through their relationships, through the choices they make and the ensuing consequences. Albert manages to infuse the text with the agonizing pain of a parent reckoning with her mistakes and holding onto the hope that our children can save us--and themselves. Which,... " Rezension(15): "〈a href=http://www.slj.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/schoollibraryjournal_logo.png alt=School Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from May 1, 2022Gr 9 Up- It's the beginning of summer, and 17-year-old Ivy (described as white) has been experiencing some weird and possibly supernatural encounters. On top of it all, her mother has been acting strange without explanation, and Ivy can't shake the feeling that she knows more than she should about the boy (also described as white) across the street. As Ivy tries to figure out what's going on, the story of her mother, Dana (again, described as
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s white), unfolds from the past as she experiments with the occult. By the end, the two stories come to a head revealing the dark magic that the two women share and how they will bear this truth together. This is a multi-genre, coming-of-age story that explores diverse relationships that teens will relate to. Albert's fast-paced storytelling is both thrilling and accessible, with her descriptive similes, knowledge of the occult, and imaginative spells. Although the practice of magic is somewhat glorified in this fictional story, the risks and dangers of it are also discussed and acknowledged. Not recommended for younger teens due to underage drinking and smoking and coarse language. VERDICT Teens who enjoy drama, secrets, romance, and mysteries with a twist of magic will love this one. A great addition to young adult collections in public libraries.- Lacey WebsterCopyright 2022 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. "
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