{"id":50,"date":"2012-08-10T16:44:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregoryfrost.wordpress.com\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2025-07-01T22:38:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:38:58","slug":"50-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?page_id=50","title":{"rendered":"Shadowbridge & Lord Tophet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sprung from a timeless dream, Shadowbridge is a world of linked spans arching high above glittering seas. It is a world of parading ghosts, inscrutable gods, and dangerous magic. Most of all, it is a world of stories.
\nNo one knows those stories better than Leodora, a young shadow-puppeteer who travels Shadowbridge collecting the intertwining tales and myths of each place she passes through, then retells them in performances whose genius has begun to attract fame . . . and less welcome attention.
\nFor Leodora is fleeing a violent past, as are her two companions: her manager, Soter, an elderly drunkard who also served Ledora\u2019 s father, the legendary puppeteer Bardsham; and Diverus, her musical accompanist, a young man who has been blessed, and perhaps cursed, by the touch of a nameless god.<\/p>\n

“For all its painterly beauty, Shadowbridge is a tough-minded novel that confronts some disturbing issues, and that is remarkably efficient in the telling…Frost could be on his way toward a masterpiece.”
\n\u2014Gary K. Wolfe, Locus Looks at Books<\/p>\n

“… a sparkling gem of mythic invention and wonder.”
\n\u2014Publisher\u2019s Weekly<\/p>\n

“[S]plendid prose that conveys a highly imaginative world peopled with convincing characters and fascinating creatures. Shadowbridge…offers limitless possibility.”
\n\u2014Paula Guran, Dark Fantasy<\/p>\n

“One of the most original and delightful fantasies I’ve read in quite awhile.”
\n\u2014Phoenix Terran Reviews<\/p>\n

“A master class on storytelling and myth-making by a gifted writer working at the top of his game.”
\n\u2014SciFi Weekly<\/p>\n

“One of the best reads of the year.”
\n\u2014Jay Tomio, Fantasy Bookspot<\/p>\n

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Daughter of the legendary shadow-puppeteer Bardsham, Leodora has inherited her father\u2019s skills . . . and his enemies. Together with her manager\u2013Soter, keeper of her father\u2019s darkest secrets, and a gifted young musician named Diverus, Leodora has traveled from span to span, her masked performances given under the stage name Jax, winning fame and fortune.
\nBut Jax\u2019s success may be Leodora\u2019s undoing. Years ago, following a performance by Bardsham, the vengeful god known as Lord Tophet visited a horrific punishment upon the span of Colemaigne and its citizens, a reprisal inflicted without warning or explanation. And as the genius of Jax gives rise to rumors that Bardsham has returned, Lord Tophet takes notice and dispatches a quintet of deadly killers to learn the truth behind the mask.<\/p>\n

Now, upon the cursed span of Colemaigne, where her father achieved his greatest triumph and suffered his bitterest tragedy, Leodora is about to perform the most shocking story of all.<\/p>\n

\u201cStunning . . . Frost could be on his way toward a masterpiece.\u201d
\n\u2013Locus, on Shadowbridge<\/p>\n

\u201cBeautifully written and realized.\u201d
\n\u2013Jeffrey Ford, author of The Empire of Ice Cream, on Shadowbridge<\/p>\n

Lord Tophet is the completion of a two-book adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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