Wait, no, that didn’t happen….did it? But it did. There are also some unexpected elements (at least for me), a twist or turn that I didn’t really see the story taking–especially considering it’s also a bit of a romance. I think, again, part of that is because of the POV, it changes things up a bit in what I’m used to reading. What Tesh has crafted here feels wholly original. When I say ‘somewhat familiar’ I mean stories dealing with the fae (fair folk, fairy, etc) in general.
Our main character already knows everything, of course, but he’s being very mum about things for reasons. It also works really well as far as the way the back story is revealed. This gives us an entirely new angle on a somewhat familiar tale. Tesh tells the story of the fae, the green man of the wood, from the fae’s POV. I think that’s because it’s easy for us, the reader, to learn about this mysterious other world through the human’s POV, someone else who is also discovering these things for the first time (in a lot of these types of tales). A lot of times when you have these sorts of stories where humans are encountering the fae (or others) they’re set from the human’s POV. One of the reasons I loved this one so much is because of the POV that Tesh chose to go with. There’s also a bit of a mysteriousness to the story which I found compelling, as the background is slowly revealed to us, the reader. The prose is fantastic and serves the story well in setting the tone and earthy atmosphere. Despite that, I took my time with this one because I was savoring every moment of the storytelling. This is less a review and more a ‘let me tell you all why I loved this book so much it was so beautiful and everyone should read it seriously go and get a copy of it you won’t regret it’ post.įirst of all, this is a very short book, only one hundred pages, so it’s a quick read.
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.
When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes. 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. There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood.
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