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sproutedpages's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Body horror, and Gore
Moderate: Kidnapping, Ableism, and Sexism
Minor: Toxic relationship and Emotional abuse
rossandhissandwich's review against another edition
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Body horror, Gore, Blood, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Toxic relationship
Minor: Sexism and Ableism
madarauchiha's review
slow-paced
0.25
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I can't believe how boring cishet white people can make A) lgbt characters and B) Faery characters. Maybe someone likes this book. I can't imagine who besides boring white people who eat plain untoasted white bread, drink mayonaise smoothies, and take 2 minute no soap showers.
Like god being gay is amazing? It's life changing it's like ever blossoming sunflowers following the never setting sun! And this author makes it so. BORING. Tedious. God this gay character so fucking cishet and white. I really can't stress this enough. Jesus, stop writing about us. You don't know how. I half want to tag this as CW homophobia.
โ I: The Demon of Rothling Abbey
minor blood, alcohol, ableist c slur,
medium live burial,
โ II: The Fairy Queen
major violence, murder, gore, possession, body horror,
I can't believe how boring cishet white people can make A) lgbt characters and B) Faery characters. Maybe someone likes this book. I can't imagine who besides boring white people who eat plain untoasted white bread, drink mayonaise smoothies, and take 2 minute no soap showers.
Like god being gay is amazing? It's life changing it's like ever blossoming sunflowers following the never setting sun! And this author makes it so. BORING. Tedious. God this gay character so fucking cishet and white. I really can't stress this enough. Jesus, stop writing about us. You don't know how. I half want to tag this as CW homophobia.
โ I: The Demon of Rothling Abbey
minor blood, alcohol, ableist c slur,
medium live burial,
โ II: The Fairy Queen
major violence, murder, gore, possession, body horror,
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Murder, and Violence
Minor: Ableism, Alcohol, and Blood
booksthatburn's review
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
DROWNED COUNTRY picks up two years after SILVER IN THE WOOD to show how Silver and Tobias are adjusting to their new lives, what begins as a hunt for a vampire twists into something stranger as the girl they were sent to rescue is no damsel in distress.
SILVER IN THE WOOD didn't really feel like it left anything hanging for DROWNED COUNTRY to pick up, so while this does bring more of a resolution than the first book did, I don't really thing it wrapped up anything left loose, per se. The main storyline begins here and was not present in the first book, and contains several major things which are both introduced and resolved here. It is the last book in the duology and while SILVER IN THE WOOD had a satisfying ending, DROWNED COUNTRY brings a more emotionally complete ending which I like much better as a stopping point for observing this story. The point-of-view character changed from the first book, rather than following Tobias we're getting Silver's perspective. The third-person parts of the narration feel very similar across both books, but the two men have very different manners of speech and thought and the text conveys that well. This wouldn't make much sense if you skipped SILVER IN THE WOOD to read this. They're both novellas and DROWNED COUNTRY simply doesn't have room to retread the ground that SILVER IN THE WOOD already covered. There's enough context to be an adequate reminder for anyone who waited between reading the two books, but it's referential instead of explanatory, and I think someone who tried to start at here would feel like many things are missing.
At first I was a bit confused by the way the book starts out with Silver and Tobias somewhat estranged, given how the previous book left things, but it does circle back to show what happened before. I like this as a follow-up, it gives a much more satisfying ending as a duology than what SILVER IN THE WOOD had on its own.
SILVER IN THE WOOD didn't really feel like it left anything hanging for DROWNED COUNTRY to pick up, so while this does bring more of a resolution than the first book did, I don't really thing it wrapped up anything left loose, per se. The main storyline begins here and was not present in the first book, and contains several major things which are both introduced and resolved here. It is the last book in the duology and while SILVER IN THE WOOD had a satisfying ending, DROWNED COUNTRY brings a more emotionally complete ending which I like much better as a stopping point for observing this story. The point-of-view character changed from the first book, rather than following Tobias we're getting Silver's perspective. The third-person parts of the narration feel very similar across both books, but the two men have very different manners of speech and thought and the text conveys that well. This wouldn't make much sense if you skipped SILVER IN THE WOOD to read this. They're both novellas and DROWNED COUNTRY simply doesn't have room to retread the ground that SILVER IN THE WOOD already covered. There's enough context to be an adequate reminder for anyone who waited between reading the two books, but it's referential instead of explanatory, and I think someone who tried to start at here would feel like many things are missing.
At first I was a bit confused by the way the book starts out with Silver and Tobias somewhat estranged, given how the previous book left things, but it does circle back to show what happened before. I like this as a follow-up, it gives a much more satisfying ending as a duology than what SILVER IN THE WOOD had on its own.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, and Violence
Minor: Ableism
CW for ableism, kidnapping, confinement, blood, violence, death.
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