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. 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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Publisher: DAW (September 5, 2006)
Publication Date: September 5, 2006
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00452V3ZA
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R. McDaniel

A trial of patience and endurance for the reader.

January 2, 2017

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750 pages of character development and world building without a single 3 dimensional character. Lots of promise without delivery. No sense of urgency or identification with characters. I bought all four volumes at once so I would not have to suffer through a year or more between volumes. If I had not done this I doubt I would have the patience to finish volume one or start the second. However, the pace finally picks up in the last 20-30 pages and there is hope that the final volumes will deliver the type of characters and storyline that Williams delivered in his first four novels. I was especially disappointed with Brionny who always seemed to develop individuality in every crisis reverted to traditional roles. That is, until she had no choice but to change or die. Shadowplay starts out much better and I have hopes this series will finally deliver. But be prepared to wallow through the first 700 or more pages, or read a synopsis of Shadowmarch and begin with Shadowplay.

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Barry Melius

Tad Williams hit his stride with this series

May 23, 2018

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Tad Williams penned a credible sword and sorcery trilogy,Memory,Sorrow and Thorn between 1988 and 1993. It was a good standard sword and sorcery epic with likable characters but many reviews noted it was slow paced. A decent author should improve over time and Williams does just that with his four part,3000 page count Shadowmarch epic done between 2004 and 2010. His strength in creating likable characters is on display here as a dozen people get fleshed out that I personally found more appealing than in his previous effort. It has the same English quasi-medieval early gunpowder,castles,knights in armor setting but with an added depth and texture that markedly increases the believability. Shadowmarch opens with fifteen year old twins,Barrick and Briony,having to grow up quickly after their father is captured and held for ransom by a neighboring state. Their older brother takes over the day to day running of the kingdom and then is assassinated leaving the twins in charge. Strange happenings on the border separating them from ancient enemies hint at dark magic crossing over. Add to that internal political rivals pushing at the twins to topple the throne and you have a heady fast paced read as our two leads get pushed to the wall. Significantly less time is spent in each scene as Williams switches location much more frequently among more characters than in Memory,Sorrow and Thorn making this fast paced with fewer slow stretches. Some of the scenes and dialogue are done so well that I reread them appreciating how eloquently Williams handled the written word. Classic fantasy/sword and sorcery epic done right.

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Michael C. Ackerman

if you like high fantasy with lots of character development and world ...

December 13, 2014

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While I'm only on page 438 of 816 (and thus perhaps not totally qualified to make a comment on the book as of yet), I felt compelled to write one because I was so impressed by this novel that I'm almost to the point of being offended by the 3 star and below reviews. Trust me, if you like high fantasy with lots of character development and world building, you'll love this novel. In fact, I loved this novel so much that I would hold it to the same standard as Brandon Sanderson's "The Way of Kings," and I consider that fantasy novel to be the best one I've ever read. And yes, Shadowmarch really is THAT GOOD! The only complaint I might have had with it is that Barrick, one of the main POV characters, seemed a bit childish at times, but this is explained and justified later on with the happenstances of a certain plot point with his biological father, so that issue was completely resolved. Tad Williams has found a fan for life in this. Rock on Tad Williams! Greatly looking forward to your next high fantasy series... This guy was born to write it!

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The little people, the Rooftoppers, saved it for me.

September 11, 2015

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"Also, we enjoyed your generous gift and it has joined the Great Golden Piece and the Silver Thing in our collection of crown jewels."

I laughed at "the Silver Thing" in the little people Queen's comment to Chert (their name for themselves is the Sni'sni'snik-soonah but they're called the Rooftoppers). Definitely a rare moment of levity in a Tad Williams book, which is one of the reasons I'm still not sure about him. He's surely a very accomplished author, it's just that there's so much exposition in his books, making them seem to progress at a snail's pace. But like George Martin, I can read Williams just for the prose, I just don't like it as much as action packed novels with good prose. If you like dark epic fantasy this is it. Nothing good ever happens to the protagonists, their lot just gets worse and worse.

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Hrishikesh Diwan

A formulaic, tentative start to what is a decent quadrology (eventually)

September 8, 2013

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This is a tough one to review. On the one hand it's quite formulaic and the pacing is uneven... but on the other hand there is enough here to pique my interest about the world and some of the characters. I've had a similar mixed experience with Tad Williams's "Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn" trilogy, the last book of which is a volume screaming for an editorial scissor.

It's all somewhat predictable here like I said - elves, dwarves, feudal lords, distant aggressive empires, a world with a long history and a time if darkness. Really very little avoid fantasy readers wouldn't have seen several times before. Shades here of Williams's prior work, as well as a strong flavor of Robin Hobb's Assassin's series.

To be honest I likely would've abandoned this series if it hadn't been for some departures from the conventional fantasy frame and occasional flashes of brilliance in the plot/ world building. Fine, I thought, I'll try the next volume in the quartet (Shadowplay). I was pleasantly surprised...

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