Shadows Fall

by Simon R. Green Narrated by Kevin Stillwell

Overview

You won't find Shadows Fall on any map, but that doesn't mean it isn't there. Shadows Fall: a small town in the back of beyond, where legends go to die when the world stops believing in them. An elephants' graveyard of the supernatural,
where the real and the imagined live side by side, and lost souls find their way home.
Town mayor Rhea Frazier and Leonard Ash used to be close-but they've mostly avoided each other since Ash died. Now a brutal serial killer and the prophesized return of James Hart have thrown Shadows Fall into disarray, and
Rhea, Ash and the rest of the town's inhabitants are scrambling to figure out how it all fits together. They're all afraid of one thing: the death of Shadows Fall.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Shadows Fall is an extraordinary town where legends--human and otherwise--go to live out their days as belief in them dies. Comic superheroes who never achieved true fame mingle with rock 'n' roll stars who died young; dinosaurs roam the park at night. It is a setting with great potential. Unfortunately, Green ( Blue Moon Rising ) for the most part foregoes developing it in favor of simply adding to it, mixing in faeries, saints and other fantastic elements. As the novel begins, a serial killer stalks the town. It's up to mayor Rhea Frazier, the revenant Leonard Ash, rock 'n' roller Sean Morrison and James Hart, whose return to town has triggered an old prophecy, to unmask the killer and deal with an unprecedented attack on Shadows Fall by outsiders. The drama of their battle, however, is undermined by thin characterizations, stilted dialogue and scenes that read like farce. Too much goes unexplained (how exactly do the outsiders breach the town's defenses?). Green invokes some powerful mythologies, but cripples the impact of climactic scenes with off-key, atmosphere-jarring wisecracks (``I'm here to kill Time as in Father Time, but there's no hurry''). Ultimately this fantasy would have been more successful had the author done more with a bit less, spinning a richer story from fewer threads. (June)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940176051728
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	03/30/2021
Edition description:	Unabridged

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