Dana’s Reviews > Hazelthorn > Status Update

This reads so much like Don't Let the Forest In, but not in a good way. It's not AS overwritten, but the prose is, again, repetitive and the imagery flat. The characters are also super similar to Drews' previous novel. Both teenage boys are beautiful, suffering, feminine; Evander's thinness is often in focus. It reads like the steel-engraving lady projected on gay teens, and I find that genuinely weird.