"I don''t know how, but Melissa Albert has taken my most private nightmares and desires and published them as a dark fairy tale. The Children is a poison apple of a book: glossy, sweet, and absolutely terrifying. I don''t think I''ll ever get it out of my bloodstream." - Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of The Everlasting "Evocative, arresting, genre-defying, and sublime. The Children altered my emotional state and haunted my every thought. Melissa Albert''s adult debut is not to be missed, particularly by those who love complex family dynamics, doors that lead to both fantasy and horror, and stories that are not what they seem." - Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six "I might end up using all the adjectives to describe this sharp, lyrical, nuanced riff on family dysfunction and the costs of devoting oneself to art.
The Children is a joyously grim, open-eyed, adult fairy tale with the messiest of morals (and I mean that as the highest possible praise), and I had so much damned fun reading it." - Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie and A Head Full of Ghosts "Melissa Albert has done it again with this eerily beautiful adult debut. Twisty and strange in all the best ways, and rendered in Albert''s characteristic dreamlike prose, The Children is exactly the grown-up fairytale I''ve been looking for. I loved Guin and her complicated relationships, as well as the deft interweaving of memories, stories, and reality--and the many places where they blur." - Heather Fawcett, New York Times bestselling author of the Emily Wilde Series "Profound, beguiling, and terrifying, Melissa Albert''s first novel for adults is dangerous witchcraft of the highest order--an insidious and masterfully cast spell of a book about the stories we tell ourselves and each other, childhood''s end, and the way that the sharp edges of creative lives draw so much blood. The Children is gorgeous and dreadful, I devoured it." - Mona Awad, bestselling author of Bunny "Albert seamlessly combines contemporary realism with fantasy, blurring the edges in a way that highlights that place where stories and real life convene, where magic contains truth, and the world as it appears is false, where just about anything can happen, particularly in the pages of a good book. It''s a captivating debut.
" - The New York Times Book Review (Notable Children''s Book) on The Hazel Wood "An original and imaginative fairy tale: thrilling, fascinating, and poignant in equal measure." - Entertainment Weekly (Best YA Book of the Year) on The Hazel Wood "A darkly brilliant story of literary obsession, fairy-tale malignancy, and the measures a mother will take to spare her child." - The Wall Street Journal (Best Children''s Book of the Year) on The Hazel Wood "A charming, mysterious fable that unpacks what it means to be a story and whether we are all simply the stories we hear and tell." - Cassandra Clare, author of the Mortal Instruments series on The Night Country "Lush and deliciously sinister fairytales to be consumed as greedily as Turkish delight or any fairy fruit. I loved these." - Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble, on Tales from the Hinterland "Every line reads like an incantation, and the result is a book pulsing with magic, one that holds the reader firmly under its spell." - V. E.
Schwab, author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, on Our Crooked Hearts "Albert''s fast-paced storytelling is both thrilling and accessible." - School Library Journal (starred review) on Our Crooked Hearts "Melissa Albert writes the kind of horror that doesn''t just make you check under your bedit makes you check your own reflection in the mirror. A black-veined, spectral howl of a novel, The Bad Ones cements Albert as the contemporary queen of suburban fantasy." - Ava Reid, author of A Study in Drowning "Melissa Albert weaves a tight mystery that takes on a different shape each time you turn it over in your hands. It''s an eerie ode to girlhood, suburban legends and that one corner of the room you never want to visit in the dark." - NPR on The Bad Ones.