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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The action in this book is a little slow...things happen more gradually, and it's honestly a little slow and drags in places. For a long time I really wasn't sure whether I liked it or not. The characters are engaging, though...and while it's not my favorite of Tad Williams' books, I still plan to finish the series. (  ) Featherfire | Oct 15, 2009 |  A nice start to a fantasy trilogy. While it ended on a cliffhanger (which drives me crazy), the story was pretty good. One thing I liked was that I never really felt like there was a ‘bad’ guy. The fae, while frightening, were also sympathetic. (  )1  janepriceestrada | Oct 12, 2009 | I started this, and found it was too dull and I was not interested enough in the character to continue. Boy, with little people advisers, gets in trouble, etc., etc., I suppose my tolerance for standard fantasy trilogies is getting less and less all the time. This was very disappointing compared to the excellent Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, though. Get those instead if you are considering Williams and haven't read anything before. http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2006/12... (  ) maketest | Aug 26, 2009 | Very good world-building - and less derivative of Tolkien than many. The story itself dragged a little in places, but I'll certainly be reading the next in the trilogy. ( ) Intemerata | Aug 16, 2009 | A new trilogy by Tad Williams. I definitely enjoyed this one, so I now feel rather silly for having started the trilogy before all three books are available. The next is out but perhaps not yet in paperback and is called Shadowplay, but I don't even know the name of the third one! Fairly stock fantasy novel, but I like his style, and thankfully this is a bit lighter going that the Otherworld series was. And it makes a refreshing change for the main protagonists to actually *know* they're the prince and princess in advance, rather than having to do the whole adventure and then find it out. I'll get on with the rest of the to-read pile for now, but look forward to the rest. ( ) lnr_blair | Jul 7, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0756403596, Mass Market Paperback)The Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series established Tad Williams's preeminence in fantasy. Now, after an absence of more than a decade, the New York Times bestselling author has returned to high fantasy with his Shadowmarch trilogy. Exciting, ambitious, intricate, and insightful, Shadowmarch: Volume 1 demonstrates that Williams is still America's best high fantasist.Shadowmarch: Volume 1 introduces a world conquered by humans, who have driven the Qar, or fairy folk, into the far north. There, the Qar hide behind the "Shadowline," a mysterious veil of perpetual mist, which drives mad any human who dares enter it. Bordering that mist and named for it is Shadowmarch, the northernmost human kingdom. Shadowmarch has lately fallen on hard times. Its king has been captured by a rival kingdom, the regent has been mysteriously slain, and the new regents are callow fifteen-year-olds. Moody, crippled Prince Barrick is uninterested in their responsibilities and haunted by eerie dreams. His twin, Princess Briony, takes their new duties seriously, but is hot-tempered and headstrong. How can they defeat the greatest threats in Shadowmarch history? Their nobles plot to overthrow them--and the plotters may include their pregnant stepmother, seeking the throne for her own child. The expanding empire of Xis has sent its agents into Shadowmarch. And, for the first time since it appeared centuries ago, the Shadowline has starting moving. As the maddening mist spreads south over Shadowmarch, it does not quite hide the powerful, uncanny, and vengeful Qar army of invasion... --Cynthia Ward (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:12 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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