Shadowmarch (Shadowmarch, #1)

by Tad Williams

Chert felt a pang of shame at how he teased her, his good old wife. She could be tart, but so could an apple, and none the less wholesome for it.

Love it. I wish my husband thought this way

occluded sunlight.

Strange word, but I don't mind cause I can guess it easily and it even sounds like aclouded

Dozens of candles burned in front of a flower-strewn shrine to Madi Surazem, goddess of childbirth, and in each corner of the room new sheaves of wheat stood in pots to encourage the blessing of fruitful Erilo.

Madi is an oddly modern name, but I think I like it

like the stuffed head of the great-toothed oliphant that hung above the fireplace and was as ugly as any demon in the Book of the Trigon,

I hated this in another book because it did t fit, the random Oliphant instead of ekepgant. here it makes sense

He had only been on the Falcon Throne for a short time—Qinnitan could remember his father, the old autarch Parnad, dying (followed more violently by several of his other sons, who had been the current autarch’s rivals) when she had first gone to serve the bees, the funereal hush that had lain so deeply on the Hive temple that she had been surprised later to discover things were not always that way.

Holy shit that's a long sentence

He had exchanged his finery of a few days before for restrained black.

I thought that was yesterday...good to know

“No, Lord Brone, we all are chastised,” she said. “The gods humble us all.”

yes queen

Connoric

??

“Dark boats paddling silent, yes, sometimes,” the girl told her, gaining courage as she went. “Our folk and the fishermen have feuds and people get into trouble, and . . . and other things happen. But I still thought it meant no good, that shuttered light. I feared saying anything, though, because . . . because of my Rafe.” “Your Rafe!” snorted her father. “He’ll be no one’s Rafe if I see him near our dockhouse again. Hands soft as skate-skin, and he’s a Hullscraper!” “He’s kind,” said the girl quietly.

Great dialogue, showing realistic characteristics of father and daughter make them believable

with a taste in the back of her mouth like corpse flesh.

Uh...has she eaten corpse flesh? what?

Briony felt as though she were in some story—not

This keeps being used, every character feels like a character in a story because things are so topsy turvy gosh darn it. its getting old