The Green Man's Challenge
core novel 2021 The Green Man
Record
| First published | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.32 (416 ratings, collected 2026-08-31) |
| Page count | 296 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781913892227 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
The Green Man's Challenge is the fourth novel in the Green Man series and follows Daniel Mackmain, the half-human, half-dryad protagonist tasked by the Green Man with mediating disputes between the supernatural beings of wild places and the ordinary humans who share the land with them, unaware. In this installment an ancient threat tied to old accounts of giants begins stirring on the Wiltshire chalk downs, and Dan has only fragmented folklore and fairy tales to guide him as he investigates. He also has to work out whether the other supernatural inhabitants of the area will prove to be allies or additional obstacles, all while the story's contemporary setting reflects the disruptions of the period in which it is written.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Green Man
- Series: The Green Man core; position 4 of 8 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Juliet E. McKenna
Notes
- From the series record (The Green Man): A continuing, currently-open contemporary-fantasy sequence; no further volume has been announced beyond the eighth as of this research pass.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Green Man: position 4 of 8: previous The Green Man's Silence (2020) · next The Green Man's Gift (2022)
Sources
- Juliet E. McKenna's official site: The Green Man series
- Wikipedia: Juliet E. McKenna
- https://www.julietemckenna.com/books/the-green-mans-challenge/
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