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Shadows Fall: Underground Act
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Shadows Fall was named by Alternative Press as a "Top Five Band in Metal Today". Revolver Magazine readers voted the band "Best New Talent." Shadows Fall received the "Golden God Award" for Best Underground Act at the Metal Hammer Awards. Guitar World Magazine ranked the band's two guitarists among the "Top 100 Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time" in the March 2004 issue. Both guitarists have written monthly columns featured in Guitar World Magazine. Drummer Jason Bittner was praised as the "#1 Up and Coming Drummer" in a 2004 reader's poll for Modern Drummer Magazine.
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There are many characters who will be familiar to readers of some of Green's later books, and part of the fun of Shadows Fall is trying to identify some of his forgotten legends. On the downside, he does include the talking animals that may be familiar to Deathstalker readers from Haceldama, but on the upside he does rescue the fairies from the Victorian bookshelf and give them back their amorality and their aggression. The book has flaws, but it is a unique story about a place you'll end up wishing really existed. It blends the action of Deathstalker with the fantasy of the Forest Kingdom books, and in places touches the humour of Haven. The blend of real world and fantasy will be welcome to those who enjoyed Drinking Midnight Wine, but all Green fans should try it. So should those who haven't yet tried Simon Green, and are looking for an engrossing read to introduce them. Try it, for those times when it does reach the edges of the magic.
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On 14 July 1790, the royal family had to attend festivities to celebrate the first anniversary of the fall of the Bastille. The queen dutifully attended, even though she described the celebrations as symbolising "everything that is most cruel and sorrowful". The king's liberal cousin, Philippe, duc d'Orléans returned from England and publicly proclaimed his support for the revolutionaries. His hatred for Marie Antoinette was extreme and she believed that he was fomenting the Revolution in order to seize the crown for himself. Ultra-royalists even whispered that the duc d'Orléans had orchestrated the siege of Versailles in the hope of having Marie Antoinette assassinated. The duke enjoyed enormous popular support amongst the people of Paris, although his Scottish mistress Grace Elliott was a secret royalist, who later admitted to having gone to Belgium on a secret mission for the queen. She carried messages to baron de Breteuil, who was now acting as Louis and Antoinette's secret Prime Minister-in-exile.
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