Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology Book 1)
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3/5
Tobias is the Wild Man who roams the Greenhollow. He's been anchored to the woods for centuries, never growing old yet living a calm and slow life, surrounded only by the trees and the inhabitants of the forest. Then one day someone moves to the nearby Greenhollow Hall, a young, charming, and friendly folklorist named Henry Silver. His interest in the Wild Man myth inevitably draw him closer to Tobias, and his warm ways reawaken the humanity the Green Man had lost so long ago.
I feel kinda bad saying this about a book so well written, with such lovely and enchanting prose, but this to me was just fine. The word that keeps popping in my head is "mid". It truly is beautiful yet there's an emptiness that bothers me. It's like I went to a restaurant and ordered a stake only to be served all the side dishes but no meat. This was too ambitious for its length, too slow for less than 100 pages.
The characters needed more fleshing out in order for me to be invested in them. Tobias seemed to have a colorful deep backstory only for it to be handwaved away in 3 lines or so. Henry appeared to have a charming personality that we barely caught glimpses of. I thought they were cute together but I had to fill in too many gaps on my own to make it work. Also, Silver's mom showing up out of nowhere and being basically Van Helsing broke my immersion in the story. The solution just landed at Henry's feet so easily that the stakes were never that high for me. That and knowing that this is a duology. Which btw, I don't think this needs another book at all. I might read the second, and final, book but at the moment I'm not particularly interested in continuing with this story.
"The Green Man walks the wood," he tried explaining. "But the wood remembers."
Tobias is the Wild Man who roams the Greenhollow. He's been anchored to the woods for centuries, never growing old yet living a calm and slow life, surrounded only by the trees and the inhabitants of the forest. Then one day someone moves to the nearby Greenhollow Hall, a young, charming, and friendly folklorist named Henry Silver. His interest in the Wild Man myth inevitably draw him closer to Tobias, and his warm ways reawaken the humanity the Green Man had lost so long ago.
I feel kinda bad saying this about a book so well written, with such lovely and enchanting prose, but this to me was just fine. The word that keeps popping in my head is "mid". It truly is beautiful yet there's an emptiness that bothers me. It's like I went to a restaurant and ordered a stake only to be served all the side dishes but no meat. This was too ambitious for its length, too slow for less than 100 pages.
The characters needed more fleshing out in order for me to be invested in them. Tobias seemed to have a colorful deep backstory only for it to be handwaved away in 3 lines or so. Henry appeared to have a charming personality that we barely caught glimpses of. I thought they were cute together but I had to fill in too many gaps on my own to make it work. Also, Silver's mom showing up out of nowhere and being basically Van Helsing broke my immersion in the story. The solution just landed at Henry's feet so easily that the stakes were never that high for me. That and knowing that this is a duology. Which btw, I don't think this needs another book at all. I might read the second, and final, book but at the moment I'm not particularly interested in continuing with this story.
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