Shadowmarch: Shadowmarch: Volume IFor generations the misty Shadowline has marked the boundary between the lands of men and the lost northern lands that are the lair of their inhuman enemies, the ageless Qar. but now that boundary line is moving outward, threatening to engulf the northernmost land in which humans still live--the kingdom of Southmarch. For centuries, the Eddon family has ruled in ancient, forbidding Southmarch Castle, guarding the border against the Qar's return, but now this powerful royal line has been dealt a devestating blow. The monarch, King Olin, is being held captive in a distant land, and it falls to his inexperienced heirs to lead their people in a time of growing danger and dread. It is on the two youngest Eddons that the heaviest burdens fall. The twins Barrick and Briony, who in such evil times have only each other, may lose even that bond as darkness closes over them. As the Qar's power reaches out across their land, will Southmarch Castle, the only home they've ever known, become in fact what it has long been called--Shadowmarch? |
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User Review - infjsarah - LibraryThingI read Book 1 and 2 of this series back when they first came out but then the long wait till the next publication meant I sort of forgot about it (even though I really like Tad Williams as an author ... Read full review
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User Review - james.d.gifford - LibraryThingI "read" this as an audio book and enjoyed both the book and the performer. It's calling on some of the weirdness of Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist in combination with the hulking castle of Mervyn ... Read full review
Contents
A Surprising Proposal | |
Songs of the Moon and Stars | |
Blood Ties | |
Sisters of the Hive | |
A Royal Appointment | |
The Summer Tower | |
Leopards and Gazelles | |
Mirrors Missing and Found | |
The Considerations of Queens | |
PART THREE FIRE | |
Candlerstown | |
Evening Star | |
The Hiding Place | |
A Gleam of Pale Wings | |
Halls of Fire | |
Bride of the | |
Sleeping in Stone | |
PART TWO MOONLIGHT | |
Vansens Charge | |
Whitefire | |
The Seclusion | |
The Grand and Worthy Nose | |
Black Flowers | |
One Guest Less | |
The GodKing | |
Lost in the Moons Land | |
The Potboys Dolphin | |
The Shining | |
Awakening | |
A Night Visitor | |
In This Circle of the World | |
The Pale Things | |
In a Marrinswalk Field | |
The Silken Cord | |
At the Giants Feet | |
The Dark City | |
Silent | |
Winters | |
Zorias Flight | |
Appendix Teaser chapter | |
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