Review of Shadowbridge

Shadowbridge by Gregory Frost was a book I was not expecting. Everyone said it was good. On all the blogs, on the forums, it had great reviews everywhere. I was, to be honest, kind of skeptical. Then I started it and could not put it down. I even stopped reading it so it wouldn’t end. Without further ranting here’s the review.

Shadowbridge starts off in a very interesting way but will throw you for loops quickly so read carefully. The characters share the pages space with stories from the world Frost has created. They are excellent and interplay very well. The fables Jax tells are so good I wanted to read more of them. The back-stories are very thorough, sometimes too much so. After a while in Diverus’ history I forgot about Jax and the main plot line of the novel.
This isn’t a fantasy where the world and all its inner workings are going to be explained right off the bat so my advice is to just go with it. It’ll be sorted out later. Frost’s language flows nicely and elevates the story to a high level.
My only problem with this novel was the switching point of view. It happened so rarely it would throw me off for a bit, and then happened right as I was getting into the grove again. But still, one small complaint for a great book. Oh yeah, and the ending, you’ll never see it coming.