{"id":5618,"date":"2011-02-18T13:55:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T21:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=5618"},"modified":"2011-02-18T13:55:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T21:55:39","slug":"an-aside-synopsis-for-the-sacred-band-by-david-anthony-durham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/news\/an-aside-synopsis-for-the-sacred-band-by-david-anthony-durham\/","title":{"rendered":"An Aside | Synopsis for THE SACRED BAND by David Anthony Durham"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/the-sacred-band-by-david-anthony-durham-cover.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/the-sacred-band-by-david-anthony-durham-cover-492x750.jpg\" alt=\"THE SACRED BAND by David Anthony Durham\" title=\"THE SACRED BAND by David Anthony Durham\" width=\"492\" height=\"750\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a>\n<blockquote><p>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\u2014and 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 mis\u00adsion 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 ren\u00addered with vividly imagined detail and in heroic scale.<\/p>\n<p>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 dis\u00adtinctively Shakespearean sensibility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another Epic Fantasy that looks to be wrapping itself up quite nicely in three volumes, all released at a reasonable pace. I haven&#8217;t yet read <strong>The Other Lands<\/strong>, so I can&#8217;t suppose too much about the synopsis here, but, damn does it make me want to get to finishing Durham&#8217;s series.<\/p>\n<p>Tentative release date for <strong>The Sacred Band<\/strong> is October 4th, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2014and perhaps right ancient wrongs once and for all. 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