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The Other Lands by David Anthony Durham
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ISBN: 0385523327
Other Lands is Worth Reading
Corinn sends Mena to hound "foulthings," monsters spawned from the Santoth's use of their warped sorcery turning the war with the Mein. In the process, hunting the final of the known beings, attempting to kill it, she finds the winged, dragon-like animal to be harmless and beautiful, smart and excellent. She forms a bond with it, protects it, and rides it back to her sister's palace on Acacia.
In book two, The Other Lands, readers are repeatedly taken to Durham's Empire of Acacia. Corinn Akaran is Queen and is priming her son Aaden to be Emperor of Acacia after her. Corinn's brother Dariel and sister Mena are another chief symbols in the story, but Corinn, jealous and suspicious, attempts to find ways to keep them away from tribunal and away from Aaden, who loves them in spite of her.
Corinn sends Dariel on a tour with the League of Vessels to the distant reaches of the known world [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to remedy with the Lothan Aklun and to renegotiate the mist trade. Unbeknownst to Corinn, Dariel's plan is to obtain rid of the mist entirely, when Corinn plans to re-addict everyone in the Acacian dynasty to the narcotic [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], making her subjects extra content and docile.
What Durham omitted to narrate his readers in book an [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Acacia, is namely the Numrek, monster cannibalistic knights from the ice-encrusted north, have cousins who are scarier than they are.
Durham's convoluted plot corners this book into a page-turner favor few others. Jumping back and ahead between Mena, Corinn, Dariel, and others, readers will reside up late into the night aching to detect out what happens to every. Acacia was intense, but slightly predictable. Other Lands namely no, and the creativity and marvel imbued in the Auldek mores, the foreignness woven into their course of life, primarily in their manipulation of their "divine children" is simply charming, reason ample to peruse this paperback.
The Auldek are nought like the league had planned for. They can't be killed, and they determine to march northwardly over the pole to approach Acacia. Dariel escapes to compensation guerilla warfare opposition the league and the Auldek, attempting to slow them and to advise Acacia, but he knows his efforts aren't enough.
Doubleday
Everything goes terribly bad.
But the ally has other plans, and their agent, Sire Neen, nurses a deep malice for Dariel, who during the war with the Mein also managed to break a ally platform and devastate Neen's family with it. Neen and the alliance intend to rule the globe and to offer Dariel in commerce to the Auldek afterward catching over the Lothan Aklun's fog trade.
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