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  • The Sacred Band

  • Book Three of the Acacia Trilogy
  • By: David Anthony Durham
  • Narrated by: Dick Hill
  • Length: 28 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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The Sacred Band

By: David Anthony Durham
Narrated by: Dick Hill
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With the first two books in the Acacia Trilogy, Acacia and The Other Lands, 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 - and perhaps right ancient wrongs once and for all.

As The Sacred Band 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 mission 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 rendered with vividly imagined detail and in heroic scale.

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 distinctively Shakespearean sensibility.
©2011 David Anthony Durham (P)2011 Audible, Inc.
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“A truly epic fantasy... with a rich world and nuanced characters. Superbly written." (Fantasy magazine)

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So sad it's ended, what a brilliant yarn

Fully recommending this story, it kept me spellbound, beautifully read, amazingly read! Wonderful tale, so rich , emotional, humorous and most importantly believable.

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