Apr 12, 2021

Hazel and Grey by Nic Stone

An updated version of Hansel and Gretel – wherein the children are teenagers in love.  Grey is a guy who’s always been seen as just another black kid, destined for the big house.  But he wants to do better.  He wants to use his street smarts to keep himself, and his love, Hazel safe.  He hates the man who ran out on his mother.  Hazel hates her stepfather.  They try to run away to spend one night together.  But they get lost in the woods and when they find a house, there’s a big party going on there.  Hazel is drugged and trapped in a room, so Grey acts like he was there to sell her.  In the end the find the proprietor is none other than the same man who abused Grey and has had his eye on his step-daughter.  They manage to cause a ruckus and attract the cops, who arrest the pedophile and free up the kids they were pimping.

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