{4.5\/5} “At once slow deep green rolled over him. He took a breath, and another, smelling old rotting leaves and healthy growth and autumn light. He felt almost as though he could have planted his feet and become a tree himself, a strong oak reaching up to the sky, brother of the old oak who ruled the world.”<\/p>\n
Silver in the Wood<\/strong> by Emily Tesh, published in 2019<\/p>\n Tobias Finch has been looking after Greenhollow Wood for 400 years. When Henry Silver, technically his new landlord, stops by they strike up a friendship. Silver later gets Finch to a doctor when someone shoots him in fear. Silver is interested in folk stories, including one about the Wild Man who lives in Greenhollow Wood.<\/p>\n This novella is about friendship, and a mother who will do whatever it takes to rescue her son. It’s about a connection to nature, and magical beings like dryads.<\/p>\n Tesh’s prose pulls you into the story, and you’ll want to find out what happens.<\/p>\n It’s the 1st book I’ve read by Tesh, as it’s her 1st book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {4.5\/5} “At once slow deep green rolled over him. He took a breath, and another, smelling old rotting leaves and healthy growth and autumn light. He felt almost as though he could have planted his feet and become a tree himself, a strong oak reaching up to the sky, brother of the old oak who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,9,5,44],"class_list":["post-17335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-fantasy","tag-review","tag-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17338,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17335\/revisions\/17338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}