There is a 900-year-old vampire afoot and a missing ingenue that needs rescuing. Adela asks Silver to come to help her with her newest monster problem. Tobias has taken to working with Silver’s mother, the aging monster hunter Adela Silver.

Silver has a difficult time finding his footing as the new wild man of the forest. Now in Drowned Forest, the temperament of the story has changed to much more character-driven narrative. While in the first story, the setting of the deep dark woods was a character as much as Tobias was. It has been two years since the first novel has taken place. Where Silver in the Wood was very much Tobias’s story to tell, Drowned Country is Silvers. The second, Drowned Country, is as good as the first one, although the tone is slightly different.ĭrowned Country brings us many of the characters from the first story, specifically of the two male leads of Tobias and Silver. Silver in the Wood was the first book in the Greenhollow Duology. When I think about it a year later, I still get the mental picture of a deep lustrous forest with secrets to keep.

Last year I reviewed one of the most atmospheric books I had ever read- Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh. Henry Silver does not relish what he’ll find in the grimy seaside town of Rothport, where once the ancient wood extended before it was drowned beneath the sea―a missing girl, a monster on the loose, or, worst of all, Tobias Finch, who loves him. This second volume of the Greenhollow duology once again invites readers to lose themselves in the story of Henry and Tobias, and the magic of a myth they’ve always known.Įven the Wild Man of Greenhollow can’t ignore a summons from his mother, when that mother is the indomitable Adela Silver, practical folklorist. The Hallow Wood asked nothing and offered nothing it only was― Emily Tesh, Drowned Country Aboutĭrowned Country is the the stunning sequel to Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh’s lush, folkloric debut. If Tobias answered, Silver did not hear it. Book Reviews The Hallow Wood Asks Nothing and Gives Nothing