The girl who made it through the forest of hands and teeth

Danielle Miele

The Girl who made in through the Forest of Hands and teeth

The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Carrie Ryan, Originally published in Hardcover by Delacorte Press in 2009

Genre: Fiction

                In this fiction novel there was a girl named Mary who lived in a village of lies and secrets. She lived with death her whole life and wants to know if there is anyone else in the world outside the fences. The day the breach came and the unconsecrated pooled in her village she faced fear and questions of what to do and where to go. She found the gate to the path which was forbidden and went down it. She learned that there is other life and found the ocean that she dreamed about in stories sent down from her mother. Life will go on outside the forest of hands and Teeth.

                “A bleak but gripping story…….Poignant and powerful.”

                                                                                -Publishers Weekly, Starred

                “Opening The Forest of Hands and Teeth is like cracking Pandora’s Box, a blur of darkness and a precious bit of hope pours out. This is a beautifully crafted, page-turning, powerful novel. I thoroughly enjoyed it. “

                                                                                -Melissa Marr, bestselling author

                                                                                Of wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange

                This book comes of a little of everything, love, hope, willpower, strength, and family. Mary grows more mature and learns that everything she heard from her mother was true and that there is a ocean and there is a place with tall buildings. There is life outside the forest.

                “His hand slips from the handle and in one motion I swing the scythe away from him and toward Travis. I want nothing more than to close my eyes, to pretend that none of this is real. Everything just a nightmare. But as I swing toward Travis, I see his eyes open. Those impossibly green eyes. He used to hunger for me with those eyes but never in such a viscous way as now. I bury the scythe in his neck, shuddering as I feel it slice through his spinal cord. His eyes lose focus as if he sees through me. His body falls limp, every muscle releasing at once. He is gone Forever.” (PG. 276)

                I think Carrie Ryan is a phenomenal writer and I heard that there is a serious to this book and I will be reading them and I’m not a big reader but these books are addicting  and I just can’t get enough of them!

                5 Paws=Devour It !