Twelve Kings: The Song of the Shattered Sands

Twelve Kings: The Song of the Shattered Sands

Taschenbuch
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Beschreibung

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781473203020

Sharakhai, the great city of the desert, center of commerce and culture, has been ruled from time immemorial by twelve kings -- cruel, ruthless, powerful, and immortal. With their army of Silver Spears, their elite company of Blade Maidens and their holy defenders, the terrifying asirim, the Kings uphold their positions as undisputed, invincible lords of the desert. There is no hope of freedom for any under their rule.

Or so it seems, until Çeda, a brave young woman from the west end slums, defies the Kings' laws by going outside on the holy night of Beht Zha'ir. What she learns that night sets her on a path that winds through both the terrible truths of the Kings' mysterious history and the hidden riddles of her own heritage. Together, these secrets could finally break the iron grip of the Kings' power...if the nigh-omnipotent Kings don't find her first.
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Twelve Kings is an interesting beginning to a fantasy series with a fascinating (yet not very defined) magic system and great world-building. Beaulieu paints clear and lush imagery of the world we're visiting. The sights, the smell - I could always picture what we're supposed to see in different scenes. We are offered four points of view in Twelve Kings: Ceda, Emre, Ramahd and Ihsan. Ceda is strong, yet vulnerable with quite a few flaws but also a tender heart when it comes to the people she loves (and sometimes even those she doesn't know at all!). Emre is deeply troubled with a good heart but shaped by what has happened to him and his family and therefore utterly misguided. Ramahd is mysterious, fascinating and I have a feeling his goal of vengeance will get sidetracked in the future. I'm curious to know more about the Kings and the mysteries still lurking in the shadows. The prose was really hard to get into at first for me, perhaps because the descriptions were sometimes a bit too detailed or maybe the beginning of the story was just too slow for me. But about halfway through everything picked up and the writing urged me to read on. I will definitely pick up the next book to see the story unfold.

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