Has anyone read Shadowmarch?

[Banshee16]

I just saw this book in the store today....didn't realize that Tad Williams was doing another fantasy series.

Has anyone read it? What's it like?

Banshee

 

[talinthas]

It's really cool. The story revolves around this castle and it's inhabitants. The king has been taken hostage by a kingdom to the south, leaving his children in charge. Meanwhile, the fae realms to the north have become active again and are starting to agitate and move southwards. The world feels a lot like the northern part of GRR Martin's westeros, but not as sexual or aggressive as those characters. The lead characters in Shadowmarche are 15 year olds, after all.

It's well worth a read if you like Tad. I met him on this book tour, and found him to be a singularly fascinating dude. We hung out at Gencon Socal as well.

This book reads much faster than any of his other works, and the characters are very well done.

 

[Eosin the Red]

Hmmmm.....I know what I will be getting with that gift certificate now.

 

[Banshee16]

It's really cool. The story revolves around this castle and it's inhabitants. The king has been taken hostage by a kingdom to the south, leaving his children in charge. Meanwhile, the fae realms to the north have become active again and are starting to agitate and move southwards. The world feels a lot like the northern part of GRR Martin's westeros, but not as sexual or aggressive as those characters. The lead characters in Shadowmarche are 15 year olds, after all.

It's well worth a read if you like Tad. I met him on this book tour, and found him to be a singularly fascinating dude. We hung out at Gencon Socal as well.

This book reads much faster than any of his other works, and the characters are very well done.

Very cool. He sounds like a cool fellow, as does China Mieville. And I loved both the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, and Otherlands trilogies.....though I haven't read War of Flowers.

I know Shadowmarch began as a web short story project, or something to that effect, but didn't really follow up on it....then just saw the novel sitting on the shelf the other day.

I'll have to look into picking it up....but have to finish the second Sharpe novel first....and relatives picked me up half the Patrick O'Brien series for Christmas, so I've got some reading to do before I can tackle Shadowmarch. Definitely going to check it out though.

Banshee