Our Crooked Hearts

Reviews

Micky - bookphenomena

Genre-wise, this is YA with a sense of thriller, fantasy and mild horror (in terms of atmosphere) and one scene that got me a bit freaked. Melissa has treated readers to her own skilled magic within the pages of this story, divulged in more than one voice and across more than one time line.

M Murphy

Our Crooked Hearts has the deliciously creepy and dark atmosphere I associate with Melissa Albert’s writing voice. I was not disappointed.

While this may sound ambitious to some, it actually teased the story along at a steady pace, increasing the tension with every page. This novel brought to life a world of magic, tantalising and full of wonder, as well as cruel and rife with devastating costs.

Too late she realizes that the powers she's playing with are also playing with her. Dana's tale starts the year she turns sixteen, when she embarks on a major fling with the supernatural. Thank you to Penguin for the early review copy.

These two characters were not close and reading these stories in tandem worked so well. It is both steeped in the eager joy of shared secrets by the innocent and warped by powerful greed.