Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2) in Do Better: SFF without Sexual Violence

May 29, 2023 Em rated it it was amazing

Shelves: novella, 2slgbtq

Loved these characters and the story!

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Oct 18, 2020 Lake rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: spec-fic, quiltbag-characters, romance

Drowned Country is very different from Silver in the Woods but no less strange and beautiful. It is, held within the fairytale, a story of loneliness and loving, of wanting and aching and longing. Silver in the Woods was funnily Tobias' story, despite the name, while Drowned Country is very much Henry's. ...more

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Oct 03, 2021 Leticia rated it it was amazing

Shelves: novella, world_beyond_the_margins_challenge

We have more of Henry Silver in this sequel which was as much fun as having Tobias Finch as a main character. And I really liked Silver's mother, Adele, and Maude.

I wonder if there will be more sequels to this series, one with Maude's POV perhaps? ...more

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Jan 06, 2021 ♥Xeni♥ rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, m-m, novella, 2021-books-read, lgbtq, romance, protag-male

I liked this book a lot less than the previous one. I think it was because the few elements I fell in love with were either destroyed, or didn't appear as much in this book:

1. The wood, the way Tobias describes it as he walks through it, that made me feel like I was there. Deep, dark, damp, delicious. This time we had a few descriptions, but not enough. I fell in love with the wood, with living deep inside it, hidden away with only a cat companion. And none of that atmosphere was retained.

2. Th ...more

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