Acacia: The War with the Mein
The ruler of the Known World, Leodan Akaran, presides over a land of prosperity and apparent harmony. On the sheltered island of Acacia, this gentle widower raises his four children, shielding them from the dark realities and dangers that lurk nearby. But all his plans come to naught when a...
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The ruler of the Known World, Leodan Akaran, presides over a land of prosperity and apparent harmony. On the sheltered island of Acacia, this gentle widower raises his four children, shielding them from the dark realities and dangers that lurk nearby. But all his plans come to naught when a foreign chieftain invades and kills Leodan, causing upheaval throughout the kingdom. By a carefully laid plan, all four offspring escape, moving in different directions, settling in different host nations. This hastily enacted dispersal sets the stage for David Anthony Durham's fourth novel, an epic fantasy of grand dimensions.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781400104888 (1400104882)
Publish date: July 16th 2007
Publisher: Tantor Media
Edition language: English
Series: Acacia (#1)
I quite like this series and I can see why people draw the parallel between his series and Game of Thrones. Character-wise: Leodan = King Robert Baratheon/Ned Stark Corinn = Sansa Aliver = Robb Mena = AryaThaddeus = LittlefingerBut I enjoyed it.
I'm going to be lazy and direct my following to Ben's review of Acacia here. He covers much of what I would have written, though his reaction to the story was at least twice as enthusiastic as mine.I first attempted to read Acacia several years ago and don't believe I got past the first 50 pages or ...
Bleh. The main characters in this book were essentially the Stark family from A Song of Ice and Fire, children in the same birth order and everything, except stripped of everything that made those characters interesting. There was a "shocking" revelation that the chancellor was evil in like chapter ...
A person looking for an epic, family-driven narrative of doorstop girth, especially in the absence of a new George R. R. Martin tome, could do much worse than this.
This was a great epic. The characters were complex, and they changed and grew, for better or worse, throughout the story. There were unexpected twists in the plot, and some I was able to predict. There was a ruthlessness to the story that just kept amazing me. The only criticism I had was that there...
14 years ago
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