The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

[King Bob]

I bought this to sell, but then saw praise of it somewhere online, so decided to read, and was pleased. It's certainly YA - female protagonist/narrator and no other point of view, big themes of female empowerment and realizing who one is. But, it's well done. The idea is that the narrator's grandmother wrote a book of fairy tales, and strange things are connected to it. Her mother goes missing, and she has to look for her, going to her grandmother's house. A couple of original fairy tales are told along the way, and fairy tales figure into the narrative, and it's certainly fantasy if you want a category. I think this might wind up being a classic, if enough people read it. And kudos for doing it on the first novel. Plus the chapter openings have nice vignette pictures. Woodcuts I think.