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Twelve Kings in Sharakhai: The Song of Shattered Sands: Book One Hardcover – September 1, 2015

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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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Series: Song of Shattered Sands (Book 1)
Hardcover: 592 pages
Publisher: DAW (September 1, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0756409721
ISBN-13: 978-0756409722
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.9 x 9.2 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful

Wonderful New Silk Road Fantasy

By H. P. on September 1, 2015

Format: Kindle Edition

In part a reaction to Western European, medieval-based fantasy, arguably the two biggest trends in fantasy today are Silk Road Fantasy and Flintlock Fantasy/Mannerpunk. I’ll talk about the latter tomorrow when I review Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho. Today I review Brad Beaulieu’s wonderful new Silk Road Fantasy Twelve Kings in Sharakhai.

Silk Road Fantasy, to keep it simple, is fantasy set in or heavily based on the Middle East, India, and Central Asia (basically the territory covered by Islamic traders on what were really silk roads). Twelve Kings is set in a secondary world in the city of Sharakhai and the surrounding deserts. The city, its culture, the magic and the bestiary have a very heavy Arabic and otherwise Middle Eastern influence. Much of what is at the heart of Silk Road Fantasy is captured in this description of Sharakhai, “the desert’s amber jewel”: “If the four kingdoms surrounding Sharakhai were a great wheel—Mirea, Qaimir, Malasan, and the Thousand Territories of Kundhun—then Sharakhai was surely its hub, and the spice market reflected this: a veritable palette of cultures from a thousand leagues in any direction.” Where medieval Europe was a very small place, the setting of Silk Road Fantasy is large.

"Her greaves, her bracers, her heavy battle skirt. And finally her breastplate. All of them had once been dyed white—the color of a wolf’s bared teeth—but now the armor was so well used that much of the leather’s natural brown shown through. Well and good, Çeda thought. It felt used. Lived in. Kissed by battle. Exactly the way she liked it.

She picked up her bright steel helm and set it on her lap. She stared into the iron mask fixed across the front—a mask of a woman’s face, cold and expressionless in the face of battle.Read more ›

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

Prepare to get swept away into Bradley P. Beaulieu's desert city of Sharakhai!

By Melanie Meadors on September 1, 2015

Format: Hardcover

Wow. This book immediately drew me in with its gorgeous cover, and the rich details and action kept me enthralled from page one. Readers are transported to the city of Sharakhai, a place of deep history and intrigue, and characters who are clearly developed and deeply layered. It's the story of a city dominated by the iron strength of tradition on a legendary scale and crushing consequences for those who break the rules. It's the story of a woman who dares to defy her status in order to reveal secrets of history and heritage, and high stakes that go beyond life or death. Beaulieu has created a world that engages all the senses from the first page, and that fans of fantasy, mystery, suspense, even history will enjoy. This book doesn't just grab hold and not let go. It will transport you to another world and have to fear for your life, puzzle over mysteries, and share the full span of emotions of the characters.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

A refreshing and exciting start to an epic fantasy series

By Llama on September 1, 2015

Format: Kindle Edition

Note: I received a copy as part of a giveaway. Spoiler-free pros-cons review:

An amazing first novel in a new series, Twelve Kings in Sharakhai has everything I hope for in an epic fantasy series.

Pros:

- The main character. Çeda is incredible. We get to know her fascinating history over the course of the book through interesting chapters about her past in between chapters about the present timeline of the story.
- The supporting cast. There are many compelling characters, especially the ones given their own point-of-view chapters. Early on, Çeda is the only point-of-view, but the scope expands beyond her and this adds a lot of depth to the story.
- The setting. It is fully realized, beautifully described, different from typical epic fantasy settings, and there are no info dumps--everything is shown to us naturally as the characters experience it and ponder their world. This is a world with history, and I'm excited to learn more of its secrets.
- The pacing. Every chapter has importance, and the first one hooked me right away.

Cons:

- I have no idea when the next book will come out. I'll gladly pick up the next book when it's available, but I'm going to miss these characters until then.
- I would like a few more of the supporting cast to have their own point-of-view chapters. There are some fascinating characters and getting into more of their heads would be delightful. Either way, the points-of-view we do get to experience are great.

This was a fantastic book and I highly recommend it if you're into epic fantasy.

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful

If this is your genre, this is your book

By R VINE VOICE on September 1, 2015

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I wasn't really prepared to like this book, maybe the title seemed hokey or something. I had a big shock when I got into it a ways. Bradley Beaulieu is a good writer, and he is a GREAT storyteller. I sank so deep into this story so fast that it was one of those books you want to read all night, and along those lines it's also the kind of book where you're really glad it's almost 600 pages, but a few hundred more would have been good. I'm sorry, I don't do spoilers, I just describe the quality of the writing and the story, and in this case either will MORE THAN justify reading this book. I really hope he writes a lot more along these lines.

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful

Adequate fantasy, but buckle in for a long haul.

By VicPylon on September 6, 2015

Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase

Average fantasy adventure in a vaguely Middle Eastern world filled with immortal kings, heroic female pit fighters and multiple conspiracies. I enjoyed the world, but tired fantasy tropes in the plot left me cold. Specifically, the orphan with a loving mother that never knew her father and everyone makes a point of not telling her anything about him. Hmm...maybe dad is somebody important? For once can someone have a high destiny without being born to it? Also, there is a major plot point involving some secret research project that mom undertook before her death that, once again, no one bothered to tell the heroine about. Really, there are at least two people still breathing that have key information that do not tell the protagonist because...reasons. Hey mom, before you run off to die, how about leaving a letter for the daughter you groomed to carry on your work? Most of the "big reveal" could be described in about a paragraph. Instead we get bad quatrains of vague clues to mom's goal for the heroine to muddle through for hundreds of pages.

I actually enjoyed the Middle Eastern inspired world and some of the supporting characters were quite good. That said, this book is clearly the start of a long series (hence the "Book 1" title) The obvious literary death march through the quatrains to solve all the riddles of the kings is going to take a long time. Not to spoil anything, but the solve rate of the riddles per book so far is very low.

I hope the author is young. This is going to take a while.

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