Review: A realistic heroine in a fantasy land! 4 and a half stars#
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 5, 2013
This was a much better book than I had expected!  You just never know when you grab a freebie.Hazel was a wonderful character!  Her faults were so understandable, without the "obvious" feel that some books have.  As if they said, "ok, we're going to make her perfect..Oh, but she'll have warts!  Yeah, warts, that'll make her much more relatable!"  Instead, Hazel just felt like a real person!But, she landed in a totally fantasy land.  It was a really brilliant mix, and I liked it very much.I took off one star because I did feel like some of the swear words were a bit gratuitous, as was a bit of "adult situations".  I thought they didn't truly add to the book, and without them it could have been appropriate for younger readers as well as adults.  I wish there were half stars, because I would rather take only one half off.Good book!!