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Shadow And Betrayal (2010)

by Daniel Abraham(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

184149612X (ISBN13: 9781841496122)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Orbit

review 1: The first two books in a four part saga.This is an unusual but interesting and well written saga set in a time and place that is not of this Earth (I don’t think). The main characters (Maati and Otah) lives are bonded together but go their separate ways while intersecting at numerous points as they both grow and learn and get caught up in a devious plot to topple the leader of a city.The most bizarre and original and interesting element to these stories are the manifestations of ideas into physical beings called Andats which are controlled by Poets. Maati trains to become a poet and helps Otah claim his inheritance after his father and brothers are murdered.The text is a joy to read, almost poetic. The characters have deeply emotional lives and the interactions between t... morehem are civilized and brutal at the same time. On the whole it was a strange but wonderful read.I will look out for the final two stories.
review 2: It's fortunate that the volume I obtained actually contained the first two books in this series. Had that not been the case, I doubt I'd have bothered with the second book. The first part was slow. While it might have been deep, at times, it glossed over pretty much every bit of possible action. The second book does doesn't do that so much, and the story really does pick up and get quite interesting, which is why I can say it's fortunate that I all but had to read the first two books. less

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