Durham has a way of writing these books where he writes it in three parts and manages to deliver on two of the three parts. In the first book, the first part of the book and the last part were hard to put down, while the middle was more filler. In this book, the middle and end were great, but the...
Somehow disappointing. The first part of the trilogy was a very good story by itself, but the two sequels made it too convoluted. The third part starts slow with all the main characters just goin from one place to another and talking about what are they going to do in the future. Then it starts t...
O terceiro e último livro da Saga Acácia foi aquele que mais gostei e também aquele que menos me custou a ler (foi preciso força de vontade para passar pelo primeiro e segundo volume). A história fica mais interessante, os personagens também e começo então a achar que o livro têm tudo para ser um...
Leodan Akaran, ruler of the Known World, has inherited generations of apparent peace and prosperity, won ages ago by his ancestors. A widower of high intelligence, he presides over an empire called Acacia, after the idyllic island from which he rules. He dotes on his four children and hides from ...
WALK THROUGH DARKNESS is a chilling account of slavery in the ante-bellum south. William is a slave who is about to become a father. His woman, Dover, is taken away by her white mistress. But William cannot take life without her, or their child, and so he decides to follow her north. What follows...
When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of drudgery and toil on the untamed prairie. So h...
I began reading a hard copy of David Anthony Durham's "Pride of Carthage" several years ago and never seemed to get around to finishing it until an audio version was recently released on Audible.com. I am one of the unfortunate individuals that becomes unbearably sleepy if I attempt to read a tr...