{"id":3678,"date":"2011-06-18T22:22:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T22:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/06\/18\/books-received-61811-part-i-2\/"},"modified":"2011-06-18T22:22:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T22:22:08","slug":"books-received-61811-part-i-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/06\/18\/books-received-61811-part-i-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Books received 6\/18\/11 Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. <\/p>\n

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The Sacred Band<\/span><\/a>
\nby David Anthony Durham<\/span><\/p>\n

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With the first two books in the Acacia Trilogy, Acacia<\/span><\/a> and The Other Lands<\/span><\/a>, 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\u2014and perhaps right ancient wrongs once and for all. As The Sacred Band<\/span> 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 mis\u00adsion 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 ren\u00addered with vividly imagined detail and in heroic scale. <\/p>\n

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 dis\u00adtinctively Shakespearean sensibility.<\/p>\n

I interviewed Durham<\/a> when Volume 1 came out. RevSF\u2019s resident book goddess Peggy Hailey called Acacia<\/span><\/a> “a huge, sprawling epic that manages to weave together history, politics, intrigue and thunderous action scenes without ever losing track of the multitudes of finely-drawn characters.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Shadow\u2019s Lure<\/span><\/a>
\nby Jon Sprunk
\nCover by Michael Komarck<\/span><\/p>\n

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The unforgiving Northlands …<\/p>\n

In Othir, he was at the top of the food chain\u2014an assassin beyond compare, a dark shadow in the night. But Caim left that life behind when he helped an empress claim her throne. And now his past has come calling again.<\/p>\n

Searching for the truth behind the murder and disappearance of his parents, Caim discovers a land in thrall to the Shadow. Haunted by temptations from the Other Side, he becomes mired in a war he does not want to fight.<\/p>\n

But there are some things a son of the Shadow cannot ignore, and some fights from which he can\u2019t run. In this battle, all of Caim\u2019s strength and skill won\u2019t be enough. <\/p>\n

For none can resist the Shadow\u2019s Lure.<\/p>\n

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Blood Secrets (Alexandra Sabian, Book 2)<\/span><\/a>
\nby Jeannie Holmes
\nCover by Kris Keller<\/span><\/p>\n

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WHEN ALEXANDRA SABIAN SINKS HER TEETH INTO AN INVESTIGATION, SHE DOESN\u2019T LET GO.<\/p>\n

Alex allowed a case involving murdered vamps to get personal and is suspended from the Federal Bureau of Preternatural Investigation. Now she\u2019s facing an official inquiry but has a chance to redeem herself. The catch: She must once again work with Varik Baudelaire, her former mentor and ex-fianc\u00e9, as he spearheads a search for a missing college student. But Varik has been keeping secrets from Alex, and his mysterious past is on a collision course with his present.<\/p>\n

When Alex and Varik discover a carefully handcrafted doll at a crime scene, neither of them can see how close the danger really is or that a killer known as the Dollmaker has made Alex the object of his horrific desire. Now the only way out of the Dollmaker\u2019s lair is through the twilight realm of the Shadowlands, where all secrets\u2014for better or worse\u2014will be revealed.<\/p>\n

\nPart II<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Books received 6\/18\/11 Part I<\/a> was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. The Sacred Band by David Anthony Durham Promo copy: With the first two books in the Acacia Trilogy, Acacia and The Other Lands, David Anthony Durham has … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n