Twelve Kings in Sharakhai
Twelve Kings in Sharakhai is a story set in a powerful desert city that controls the flow of trade and spice through otherwise impassable terrain.It’s a story about Çeda, a woman who fights in the pits to scrape a living from the cruel but beautiful city she calls home. As the story opens, she...
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Twelve Kings in Sharakhai is a story set in a powerful desert city that controls the flow of trade and spice through otherwise impassable terrain.It’s a story about Çeda, a woman who fights in the pits to scrape a living from the cruel but beautiful city she calls home. As the story opens, she discovers that the book her mother left her before she died holds the clues to t
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780756409722 (0756409721)
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Series: The Song of the Shattered Sands (#1)
The Song of Shattered Sands - Book 1I became enamoured of epic fantasy back in the 70s when the big thing to read was Lord of the Rings. Elves and fairies and orcs and wizards and the like were de rigeur and I was totally along for the ride. Still am, truth be told. Today, however, things are fin...
[I received a copy of this novel through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.]I'm not sure how to rate this book, so I'll go with 3 stars for now.It's not a bad book, definitely not. It's actually pretty interesting, with a setting that for once isn't the typical "European medieval fantasy" ...
I received a copy from Netgalley. Unfortunately this is a DNF for me. Made it 43% but I'm finding myself skimming and not really wanting to pick it up anymore. Which is a shame because there were plenty of things about this book I loved. I loved the main character, I loved the mythology and the ...
Being a late-comer to the Lays of Anuskaya (the trilogy is still on my TBR list), Twelve Kings in Sharakhai serves as my first real introduction to the work ofBradley P. Beaulieu - and I was not disappointed.Initially, I was a bit hesitant about the book, based not on Beaulieu's reputation, but on t...