This weeks can't wait to read selection is:
The Sacred Band by David Anthony Durham
Doubleday
October 4, 2011
576 pages
With the first two books in the Acacia Trilogy, Acacia and The Other Lands, David Anthony Durham has created a vast and engrossing canvas of a world in turmoil, where the surviving children of a royal dynasty are on a quest to realize their fates—and perhaps right ancient wrongs once and for all. As The Sacred Band begins, one of them, Queen Corinn, bestrides the world as a result of her mastery of spells found in the ancient Book of Elenet. Her younger brother, Dariel, has been sent on a perilous mission to the Other Lands, while her sister, Mena, travels to the far north to confront an invasion of the feared race of the Auldek. Their separate trajectories will converge in a series of world-shaping, earth-shattering battles, all rendered with vividly imagined detail and in heroic scale.
David Anthony Durham concludes his tale of kingdoms in collision in an exciting fashion. His fictional world is at once realistic and fantastic, informed with an eloquent and distinctively Shakespearean sensibility.
I'm going on vacation in two weeks and I'm devoting the whole trip to this series. I can't wait!
9 comments:
i'd never seen this! great cover!
Looks like an interesting series, I must check it out. =]
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Here is My WoW this week. =]
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I hope it's a good book because if you recommend it, I'm going to read it. I have nothing but bad reads lately and really want a fantasy to sink my teeth into.
Have not read this series but it sound epic. great pick!
Okay, I really need to get cracking on the first 2 books - they've been sitting on my shelf forever.
Here's my WOW for this week.
I hope that when you get it, that it will be everything you hope it to be. Check out what I am Waiting On Wednesday for.
Great choice. I tried starting the first Acacia book but just couldn't get into it for some reason. I do plan on trying again because I've heard that these books are amazing.
Donna @ The Happy Booker
Wow i love your logo thing... So cute.... :D Ive never heard of this book, but it sounds and looks interesting!
My wow: http://lovelylit.blogspot.com/2011/09/waiting-on-wednesday.html
Thanks for visiting Lovelylit! I loved Across the Universe!! Its very mixed genre....sort of dystopia plus science fiction and romance then a little mystery! Wonderful I think!!
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