Title: Skein of Shadows Author: Marsheila Rockwell Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Genre: Fantasy Skein of Shadows is a tight, fast-paced quest set in a world of dwarves, earth dwelling elves, wizards, living constructs, shifters, dragons, highly evolved spiders, and various classes of demons among others. The story follows Sabira, a human marshal with a magical sword, on a mission underground into Tarath Marad to find Tilde, her old flame, Ned’s sister, who is missing after going into the caves with thirty men. None of them came back. Nevertheless, Sabira, like all heroes in traditional fantasy, is happy to take on ridiculous odds. She enters Tarath Marad with a small motley band of fighters that she picked up along the way, and it soon becomes clear that even if they manage to find Tilde, getting out again is extremely unlikely. People die, some retire wounded, but Sabira goes on, driven by the need to cleanse her conscience and repay her debt to his family after failing to … [Read more...]