New York

New York is the first place the reader meets Alice and Ella. it is also one of the places Alice says they have stayed in the longest. This is where Ella is first kidnapped, as well as the state where the Hinterlands entrance is. Lastly, New York - Brooklyn, specifically, is where Ella and Alice finally settle down after Alice escapes her story. The reader learns that there is a psychiatrist here that secretly works with ex-stories, implying that there have been many people who escaped their stories and the Hinterlands both before and Alice broke her own fairy tale.

Birch

Birch is the town that Finch and Alice go to in order to find the Hinterlands. This is the main source of the bridge between the worlds as Althea’s Hazel Wood estate is hidden somewhere in the forests outside the town. This is also where...