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Holly and Oak
- Familiar Spirits
- Narrated by: Christopher Patton
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary
Once a year, the town of Ravenscroft celebrates the winter solstice by watching the Oak King symbolically slay the Holly King to ensure the death of winter. To most people, it’s a pagan ritual that has lost all meaning in the modern world, harmless fun during the week of Christmas. To the coven who founded the town, it’s a magic so important they entrusted it to the two strongest witches in generations.
Will Battle and Chester Sibley are opposites in every way, or so Ravenscroft residents insist. Quiet, polite Will is the town’s beloved adopted son, popular and admired. Defiant, outspoken Chester is disliked and avoided despite being a direct descendant of the town’s founders. It’s no wonder Will is the embodiment of spring and life as the Oak King and Chester was given the cold, dark Season of Holly.
No one in town seems to realize their nice, well-mannered Oak King has iron at his core and their fearsome Holly King only wants to make people happy. Perhaps that’s also why not even the other witches suspect that Chester has been in love with Will for almost his entire life. That’s how Chester wants it. He might dream of Will, but he’s learned to keep his dreams to himself.
The trouble is Will. For all that he smiles and nods, Will has started quietly rebelling against both the town and the coven. With only days until the winter solstice, he issues Chester a challenge—to finally ask for what he wants. If Chester tells the truth, he risks losing Will and upsetting the ritual that has made the town prosperous. But there is more between them than magic, no matter how powerful or ancient, and Chester would do anything for Will, even, just maybe, coming in from the cold.
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- Hemmel M.
- 17-04-24
nice town and main characters
Well, I just read the blurb and realize it reveals the whole story. Why do authors do that?
I listened to the book twice in a row and now I am exhausted. I don't get it. I have so many questions. For example :
Why the transfer of power? Why does it hurt? Why does Chester have to ask for a gift? I have been concentrating and trying not to miss anything. This is not my genre, so maybe I am supposed to sit back and just enjoy the realm and mystery? I just feel unsure and confused. This is made worse by people constantly uttering opinions that are wrong, when they are talking about each other. Which they do a lot.
The narration was very good.
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- Mervyn Dacre
- 20-03-24
lovely sweet gentle supernatural love story
Holly and Oak is about two young witches in a town with an established coven, which has bound the two of them in the ancient ritual of the Holly king and the Oak king. What their elders didn't count on was the personal bond between them, and the story centres on an understated and subtle exploration of their past history as they defy the expectations of those around them. Lovely, gentle, adorable and thoughtful.
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