Thank you for writing your story! Next time she talks to him many months later it's a short conversation about cultivation. The city of Darien is an old one, remnants of an older empire, and is ruled by twelve families and a king as a figurehead. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Darien: Empire of Salt by C F Iggulden Mark Yon July 22, 2017 0 Comment You may not (at first) recognise the author’s name: but readers of Historical Fiction may know of Conn Iggulden, author of nearly 20 fiction books, including the Emperor series set in Ancient Rome, and more recently his War of the Roses series. Leider ist ein Problem beim Speichern Ihrer Cookie-Einstellungen aufgetreten. I hope to provide now at least a frank review having completed the book in just under a week. I first heard about the Salton Sea back in 2006 when I saw the documentary “Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea.” The characters in this book are loosely based on actual people highlighted in the documentary. She started out wanting to have modern ammenities which makes sense. I have never read a poor book by him. The protagonist seems to be able to think things through which is nice for a change. Nachdem Sie Produktseiten oder Suchergebnisse angesehen haben, finden Sie hier eine einfache Möglichkeit, diese Seiten wiederzufinden. Apparently he's damn good at Fantasy as well. Twelve families keep order with soldiers and artefacts, spies and memories, clinging to a peace that shifts and crumbles. This is an odd Xianxia story, it doesn't deviate too much from the formula except for the MC, which is a "I'll just do things my way and It'll work out" character. Darien: Empire of Salt is the first in a planned series of fantasy books by Conn Iggulden. The grittiness of the tale is told with a razors edge prose. 23,95 €. Please try again. Geben Sie Ihre Mobiltelefonnummer ein, um die kostenfreie App zu beziehen. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. The city of Darien stands at the weary end of a golden age. This is a story about God and the Devil, but not how you were taught to believe. The biggest downfall for me was the characterisation, as I felt there were too many characters/povs over a short period of time ( book is 330 pages or so) but with more than 5/6 main characters. He writes exceedingly well in the genre's I have read. 12 Personen fanden diese Informationen hilfreich, Rezension aus dem Vereinigten Königreich vom 24. She also early on decides revenge via not-selling-clothes to the murderer would be pointless and stupid. The sword saint and his companions have crossed a continent to bring an old man home for punishment. She goes and sees a tournament and is remarkably critical of fighting techniques while constantly admitting she knows nothing about fighting. And how did it fare? Here, amongst old feuds, a plot is hatched to kill a king. Also it just seemed a little sexist to me, there were no female characters until like page 50! If you're looking for a sort of remotely traditional cultivation novel, don't even bother trying this one. The oliver kids befriend an ex-gang banger who shows them around. Iggulden branches out into a but of Fantasy. Great read. But... her cultivation being exposed also seems like the best thing that's ever happened to her. good, but depressing took awhile to get really juicy.