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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
I didn’t realize this would be so short! But it was beautifully written and just...COOL, you know? Interested in reading the second one when it comes out!
I loved how this book made me feel. I love how it pulled me in to a lush mysterious forest and I didn’t want the magic of it to end.
I picked this up from the library on a whim as I had return my current (massive) audiobook and wanted something to listen to while I waited for my hold to be up.
I enjoyed every second of Silver in the Wood, my only complaint is that it's not longer! The narrator was brilliant (his voice for Fabian was delightfully creepy) and I was absolutely enthralled. The world was enchanting and magical, and the characters were charming.
Luckily the audiobook includes the sequel as well, so I'm diving in asap!
I enjoyed every second of Silver in the Wood, my only complaint is that it's not longer! The narrator was brilliant (his voice for Fabian was delightfully creepy) and I was absolutely enthralled. The world was enchanting and magical, and the characters were charming.
Luckily the audiobook includes the sequel as well, so I'm diving in asap!
Enjoyable and quite magical but didn't blow me away. Will read book two as I have the audiobook for both and it's short.
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Mini-review of this charming and atmospheric queer novella duology about a quiet man, Tobias Finch, who lives and is the wood meeting a charming man, Henry Silver, who researches folklores.
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes. Tobias is forced to reckon with his troubled past—both the green magic of the woods, and the dark things that rest in its heart.
In the first book, Silver in the Wood, you are in Tobia's POV which is eerily quiet and solemn. He has a steady heart and not easily startled so reading his story is like treading water. I love the way Tobias just lets things happen in his POV and how nothing really phases him. This is a tender love story not quite blossoming with a secure man experiencing it all and just sighing and wanting to go home to his cat.
"Tobias tried to think about Silver's bright enthusiasm, his pale eyes sparkling under the fall of his brown curls, rather than about the story. He knew the story. Of course he did."
The first book is just a little over 100 pages so it's a great introduction to Greenhollow and the characters before you dive into the second book, Drowned Country. (Which I personally enjoyed more since I'm a plot girly)
-- Review continued in "Drowned Country"
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes. Tobias is forced to reckon with his troubled past—both the green magic of the woods, and the dark things that rest in its heart.
In the first book, Silver in the Wood, you are in Tobia's POV which is eerily quiet and solemn. He has a steady heart and not easily startled so reading his story is like treading water. I love the way Tobias just lets things happen in his POV and how nothing really phases him. This is a tender love story not quite blossoming with a secure man experiencing it all and just sighing and wanting to go home to his cat.
"Tobias tried to think about Silver's bright enthusiasm, his pale eyes sparkling under the fall of his brown curls, rather than about the story. He knew the story. Of course he did."
The first book is just a little over 100 pages so it's a great introduction to Greenhollow and the characters before you dive into the second book, Drowned Country. (Which I personally enjoyed more since I'm a plot girly)
-- Review continued in "Drowned Country"
Read this for: a strangely quiet, intimate take on the Green Man legend; an ancient dark edge to magic; queerness; sweetness; and lovely prose. It's a short read, and thoroughly worth it :)
This novella features a melancholy folk tale set deep in the woods. Somehow the story was both slow and quick, with lush explanations of the forest and explorations of the magic and stories from the generations before. This is a super short read that still feels worthy of the time it takes to finish.