Twelve Kings in Sharakhai

Bradley P. Beaulieu

DAW, Aug 27, 2019 - Fiction - 640 pages

Best Book of 2015 by Amazon | Barnes & Noble | BuzzFeed * "Promises to be breathtaking." --Robin Hobb

The Song of the Shattered Sands: Book One

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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User Review  - Karlstar - LibraryThing

A rich, complex desert setting. Not the typical European-like fantasy setting. The Twelve Kings have ruled in Sharakhai with an iron fist for many years, having made some compact with the gods that ...

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User Review  - Kiddboyblue - LibraryThing

Wow. I was utterly blown away by this fantasy novel. It felt completely unique, wholly realized, and epic in scope. Everything you would want a new fantasy series to be. Beaulieu writes masterfully ...

About the author

Bradley P. Beaulieu fell in love with fantasy from the moment he began reading The Hobbit in third grade. While Bradley earned a degree in computer science and engineering and worked in the information technology field for years, he could never quite shake his desire to explore other worlds. He began writing his first fantasy novel in college. It was a book he later trunked, but it was a start, a thing that proved how much he enjoyed the creation of stories. It made him want to write more. He went on to write The Lays of Anuskaya series as well as The Song of Shattered Sands series. He has published work in the Realms of Fantasy Magazine, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Writers of the Future 20, and several anthologies. He has won the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Award and earned a Gemmell Morningstar Award nomination. Learn more about Bradley by visiting his website, quillings.com, or on Twitter at @bbeaulieu.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Twelve Kings in Sharakhai; Book 1 of Song of Shattered Sands, Bradley P. Beaulieu
• Author: Bradley P. Beaulieu
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: DAW, 2019
• ISBN: 075640973X, 9780756409739
• Length: 640 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy; Fiction / Fantasy / Epic