by
Tad Williams
766 pages
Published
November 30th 2010
by DAW Hardcover
ISBN:0756406404
(ISBN13: 9780756406400)
The long-awaited concluding novel in Tad Williams's thrilling epic Shadowmarch series.
Southmarch Castle is about to be caught between two implacable enemies,
the ancient, immortal Qar and the insane god-king, the Autarch of Xis.
Meanwhile, its two young defenders, Princess Briony and Prince Barrick,
are both trapped far away from home and fighting for their lives.
And now, something is awakening underneath Southmarch Castle, something
powerful and terrible that the world has not seen for thousands of
years. Can Barrick and Briony, along with a tiny handful of allies,
ordinary and extraordinary, find a way to save their world and prevent
the rise of a terrible new age-an age of unending darkness?
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
In the end only duty, or the love from which duty springs, can provide strength for such a journey.
Southmarch es un pequeño reino que se encuentra después de varias generaciones de relativa paz en medio de una lucha contra los Qar, sin saber que cosas más profundas y muchisimas más antiguas vienen a determinar ese lugar como centro de disputa de muchos poderes.
Southmarch was indeed alive, and in a way that almost nothing else was. It was alive because it was full of doorways, and it was full of doorways because it was curiously, even uniquely alive. The gods, the Qar, even the late-coming humans, had not made this place the heart of so many happenings. They had all come here because the place itself was as vital as a beating heart.
Los Arquetipos clásicos se pasean por la novela compuesta de cuatro tomos de alrededor de 800 páginas: el héroe, la búsqueda, redención, amor, sacrificio, locura, mitos , y hasta un Prometeo y un Orfeo se asoman por sus páginas. Y Hadas. Esas hadas terribles, orgullosas , bellas y repelentes, y ese Crepúsculo Feerico lleno de amargura y deseos de venganza.
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer 
