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sophia_sol) wrote2021-06-02 06:42 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2021-06-02 06:42 pm
Drowned Country, by Emily Tesh
Ohhhh Tesh is just so good at creating a feeling with her writing. This one and its predecessor, Silver in the Wood, are both filled with this amazing sense of like....the numinous but grounded. I love it and it's perfect, and exactly fits the kinds of things this duology is doing.
Silver in the Wood is so perfect in itself that I had trouble convincing myself to actually read this sequel, afraid that adding more would ruin it retrospectively, but I was wrong to be afraid because this was GREAT. I'm glad I finally took this book off my shelf.
Drowned Country is a fairly direct sequel, though it takes place a few years later. But it once again is in part about the (queer!) relationship between Tobias Finch and Henry Silver, amidst a story that is also very interested in a sense of place, in various people's relationships with magic and identity, and in the effects of time.
I am not 100% there on the ending I must admit, I felt I needed a LITTLE more of them patching things up, but I won't complain too hard because otherwise the book is SO great.
Silver in the Wood is so perfect in itself that I had trouble convincing myself to actually read this sequel, afraid that adding more would ruin it retrospectively, but I was wrong to be afraid because this was GREAT. I'm glad I finally took this book off my shelf.
Drowned Country is a fairly direct sequel, though it takes place a few years later. But it once again is in part about the (queer!) relationship between Tobias Finch and Henry Silver, amidst a story that is also very interested in a sense of place, in various people's relationships with magic and identity, and in the effects of time.
I am not 100% there on the ending I must admit, I felt I needed a LITTLE more of them patching things up, but I won't complain too hard because otherwise the book is SO great.