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Please try again later. Mass Market Paperback Verified Purchase. I think I would have liked this book better, if I had not read the back cover first. This made the first pages seem painfully slow. Not a flaw of the book, but an expectations mismatch. The slow pacing of the book continued throughout, though. And it is slower than I think I would have liked anyway. It doesn't make it bad, this is just my preference. If you like that in a book, you may enjoy this one.
This really reads much more like a historical novel, than a fantasy novel, fantasy aspects are pretty minimal. If you are looking for High Fantasy, this isn't it. The book is generally well written, populated with interesting characters. And the characters on different sides are all characters, not "good", and "evil". Everyone is going for their interests, or their idea of "right", it's not "good guys" vs. Durham does this really well.
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There's a very large cast, and a fair amount of background. It gives the book a nice feeling of depth, and of being a view into a existing world. The depth makes the world feel much more real than many books, which sometimes feel as if their world ends one step past the events in the book. The one thing I really didn't like about the book was the combination of multiple points of view with cliff-hangers at the end of nearly every section. It made me feel like the author has been watching too much television, and didn't realize how poorly the cliff-hangers fit the structure of the novel.
Every viewpoint change became an annoyance that threw me out of the narrative, instead of being an interesting shift to new events. This is the reason I won't bother with the other books in this series. If you like slow pacing I suspect a ten volume set coming , and aren't bothered by cliffhangers, the author does a lot of the rest really well, and you might really enjoy the book.
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I was nervous about purchasing the book because of some of the comments within the bad reviews. I've never written an amazon review but feel complelled to do so. First the multiple character POV are not difficult to follow, especially with how many different ones there are.
The stories background is very accessible once one gets beyond the initial confusion of the first pages. Secondly, I don't know why anyone says the story plot is predictable. If anyone has read the 3rd book of the song of fire and ice, you will have WTF moments after page And for the reviewer who said that he couldn't believe that one of the females became a martial expert within a few weeks or months and so the rest of the plot became unbelievable, well there is 'magic' in the book Anyhow I am well pleased! Just when you might think "Acacia 1" is going to turn into a typical revenge fantasy, it begins to surprise.
And when you reach the artfully cynical ending, maybe you'll be totally stunned.
It begins in a Hitchcock way: And so the suspense stems from the wait to see how he accomplishes this. And meanwhile, back at the palace the story's told from multiple points of view , we meet King Leodan's four children, Aliver, Corinn, Mena, and Dariel there's no queen--she died 'ere the story began , and the King's chancellor Clegg, and generals, and governers, some totally wicked barbarian fighters mounted on rhinos, and a merchant trading class.
Drugs appear, and mention is made of another race living on beyond the "Known World. But nothing goes as planned. The oldest girl, Corinn, is now the captive guest of Hanish Mein, the leader of the race that knocked over the Acacian empire in the first section. On one side of the world you have the Mein, who were defeated in the past by one of the first Acacian kings and banished to the far North. Thaddeus Clegg sends Aliver on a quest to find them, which results in one of the best scenes in the entire novel. Now the Santoth need The Song of Elenet to regain their full powers, be freed from their exile and, incidentally, help Aliver reclaim his birthright and his empire.
Aliver also learns from the Santoth that the Acacian people are actually remote descendants of a displaced and defeated Talayan tribe. And finally, the barbarian, man-eating Numrek, who aided the Mein during their war of conquest, have set up on the main continent and seem to have completely transformed their appearance. At this point it also becomes clear that the three exiled royal siblings are on the verge of mounting a counter-offensive against the Mein. Aliver, thanks to his Talayan training, has become a powerful warrior and leader who is trying to unite the various tribes into a considerable fighting force and who may be able to summon help from the Santoth.
When Darien returns to the mainland, he is reunited with Aliver. They march north, gathering an army from the reinvigorated populace, helped by the Santoth who have cast a spell that helps people kick their state-sponsored Mist addiction. Then Mena joins them after first easily defeating a shipful of men sent to capture her those sword lessons must have been very effective!
She also learns that 1. The end result is a stalemate, which they finally attempt to break by a duel between Aliver and Maeander. After Aliver loses this duel and dies, Dariel dishonorably commands his troops to kill Maeander, breaking the rules of the duel and setting off the all-out war again. She has also allied herself with the League of Vessels, who withdrew their naval support from the Mein at a critical juncture.
In the end, I enjoyed most of Acacia: The War with the Mein , but I do feel that it has a few shortcomings. I was really surprised when the visiting Prince Igguldan gallantly promises to rescue Corinn, only to be mowed down in the first major engagement of the war.
The second section of the novel is much better, showcasing different areas of the world. Thanks to the nine year break, the siblings have become less recognizable and much more interesting. The third and final section delivers some genuine tension and a thrilling ending. And keeping this trend going: The Other Lands , book two of this trilogy, is a much better novel overall.
And finally, this is one of those novels that seems to throw everything and the kitchen sink at the reader.