They're both novellas and DROWNED COUNTRY simply doesn't have room to retread the ground that SILVER IN THE WOOD already covered. This wouldn't make much sense if you skipped SILVER IN THE WOOD to read this. The third-person parts of the narration feel very similar across both books, but the two men have very different manners of speech and thought and the text conveys that well. The point-of-view character changed from the first book, rather than following Tobias we're getting Silver's perspective. It is the last book in the duology and while SILVER IN THE WOOD had a satisfying ending, DROWNED COUNTRY brings a more emotionally complete ending which I like much better as a stopping point for observing this story. The main storyline begins here and was not present in the first book, and contains several major things which are both introduced and resolved here. SILVER IN THE WOOD didn't really feel like it left anything hanging for DROWNED COUNTRY to pick up, so while this does bring more of a resolution than the first book did, I don't really thing it wrapped up anything left loose, per se.

Queer Rep Summary: Gay/Achillean Main Character(s).ĭROWNED COUNTRY picks up two years after SILVER IN THE WOOD to show how Silver and Tobias are adjusting to their new lives, when what begins as a hunt for a vampire twists into something stranger as the girl they were sent to rescue is no damsel in distress. 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. Even the Wild Man of Greenhollow can't ignore a summons from his mother, when that mother is the indomitable Adela Silver, practical folklorist.

Greenhollow duology