If you are a fan of these three authors I reccomend you stay away from this one. Favorite authors lately: Robin Hobb, Jim Butcher, Guy Gavriel Kay. But try as he might, this book still falls short on several different levels. He gives the characters very definable voices and livens things up.
The narrator does a fine job on the book. You can have an interesting story and universe, but if you don't fill it with interesting characters, characters that readers will care about, then you just have a long boring slog to the end.
#TAD WILLIAMS SHADOWMARCH PLUS#
I never will though, because after thirty plus hours of listening, I don't think I could take another book with the same boring characters. I'd like to fiind out what happens to them. There is a pretty good storyline about a mysterious orphan boy and a dwarf (for lack of a better word). There are four main story lines in the book, with most of the book concentrating on the two most uninteresting characters in the story. Williams is a tallented writer as far as describing things in the universe that he has created, but he falls far far short on character development. The author has to paint the picture of an entire world and the characters and things within it.
#TAD WILLIAMS SHADOWMARCH SERIES#
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?Īs a longtime reader of fantasy novels, I understand that the first book in a series is many times a bit slower paced than the later books. The twins Barrick and Briony, who in such evil times have only each other, may lose even that bond as darkness closes over them. It is on the two youngest Eddons that the heaviest burdens fall. 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. But now that boundary line is moving outward, threatening to engulf the northernmost land in which humans still live - the kingdom of Southmarch.įor 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 devastating blow. For 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.
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