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Gregory Frost, Shadowbridge
Del Rey (2008) ISBN: 978-0-345-49758-1
Score: 2
First half of a high fantasy tale about a young woman following in the footsteps of her father, a famous puppetmaster. It's set on a huge, complicated system of bridges (plus a few islands, but those are mostly ignored by the bridge residents), with each span treated like a separate country with its own culture and language (the latter is irrelevant, since setting foot on a span grants you instant fluency in the local language). I was a bit disappointed at the end when I realized we don't really learn all that much about the world, or the gods that are openly pushing the characters around, or what happened to the heroine's parents. We do see the heroine tell several stories (with and without puppets), including possibly the entire second half of the book (the focus shifts to a young man, and the first line indicates it's a story, but the prose matches the main narration rather than the style used for the other interior stories, and it is far, far longer than they are, with no way to tell where it ends and the narration resumes).
Next Book: Carole Nelson Douglas, Dancing With Werewolves
Del Rey (2008) ISBN: 978-0-345-49758-1
Score: 2
First half of a high fantasy tale about a young woman following in the footsteps of her father, a famous puppetmaster. It's set on a huge, complicated system of bridges (plus a few islands, but those are mostly ignored by the bridge residents), with each span treated like a separate country with its own culture and language (the latter is irrelevant, since setting foot on a span grants you instant fluency in the local language). I was a bit disappointed at the end when I realized we don't really learn all that much about the world, or the gods that are openly pushing the characters around, or what happened to the heroine's parents. We do see the heroine tell several stories (with and without puppets), including possibly the entire second half of the book (the focus shifts to a young man, and the first line indicates it's a story, but the prose matches the main narration rather than the style used for the other interior stories, and it is far, far longer than they are, with no way to tell where it ends and the narration resumes).
Next Book: Carole Nelson Douglas, Dancing With Werewolves