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Winner of the 2020 World Fantasy Award! From Astounding Award winner and Crawford Award finalist Emily Tesh An ALA RUSA Reading List Selection "A true story of the woods, of the fae, and of the heart. Deep and green and wonderful.”—New York Times bestselling author Naomi Novik There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads. When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes. Old secrets better left buried are dug up, and 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. Praise for Emily Tesh's Silver in the Wood "A wildly evocative and enchanting story of old forests, forgotten gods, and new love. Just magnificent."—Jenn Lyons, author of The Ruin of Kings At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Skyril
SILVER IN THE WOOD was like a new kind of fairytale. A fairytale of the trees and the woods and the things that sometimes live there. It was dry and green and earthy. The entire book smelled of leaves and dirt, and I felt like I was watching decades pass, slow, and warm like sun-dried earth, though only a fraction of that time actually passed in the present of this story. The romance was almost subtle, and while I felt the attraction, it wasn't full of viseral things, but was growing, like a sapling. It was a cozy backdrop to an otherwise lingering story of age-old monsters sleeping beneath the trees. While Tobias wasn't the hero that I usually find and enjoy in stories, he was likeable, a giant teddy bear of a man, aware of his own intimidating figure, yet kind and gentle. While Silver was a soft, young sapling of a character, fresh and dewy and sweet, fascinated with the myths and the stories and with Tobias himself. He was absolutely charming, I loved his sweet soul. Of course, this was a novella at just over 100 pages long, or 2 hours and 20 minutes if you're listening to the audiobook, so while I would have enjoyed a deeper dive into the characters, their histories, and the myths, especially the true ones, surrounding Tobias, his forest, and his history with the beautiful monster, Fabian, this was a lush, warming, enchanted look into a world full of things not quite human hiding in the shadows, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Hopefully we'll get a few more details in its sequel! Any triggers in this book would be very mild, but I'll list them just in case. TW's ~Firearms ~Gunshot wound ~Kidnappings
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