Richard Adams
Hardcover | Pages: 1056 pages Rating: 4.01 | 2153 Users | 185 Reviews
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| Title | : | Maia (Beklan Empire #2) |
| Author | : | Richard Adams |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1056 pages |
| Published | : | September 27th 1984 by Viking Press |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy |
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Maia is a fifteen-year-old peasant beauty growing up in poverty beside Lake Serrelind. Seduced by her stepfather and betrayed by her jealous mother, Maia finds herself in the hands of slave-traders to be sold as a concubine. She attracts the attention of General Kembri who uses her to obtain information from her admirers and her adventures uncover a plot for civil war. Proclaimed as a heroine, she finds that one sinister result of fame is to have enemies in high places and Maia has to struggle for survival through treachery, cruelty, lost love and a final flight through a wild empire to escape a crumbling regime.Mention Books Concering Maia (Beklan Empire #2)
| Original Title: | Maia |
| ISBN: | 0670800333 (ISBN13: 9780670800339) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Beklan Empire #2 |
| Setting: | Beklan Empire |
Rating Appertaining To Books Maia (Beklan Empire #2)
Ratings: 4.01 From 2153 Users | 185 ReviewsJudgment Appertaining To Books Maia (Beklan Empire #2)
I keep going back to this story again & yet again. I've just started the 6th read in a decade & it is as absorbing & unputdownable as the first. Unlike most of Adam's other novels, this is a sensual tale of another world, with deeply drawn characters, fascinating largesse, kind of like watching a car wreck when one knows one shouldn't but unable to look away. One has to suspend present political & gender bias to become lost in Maia's world, so much different from our own. WellA pretty awful beginning, and I kept waiting for it to get better, but it didn't, so I gave up around page 100. It starts with a girl being basically raped by her stepfather and then being sold as a slave to be a prostitute in the big city. Not exactly light reading. I'm so disappointed b/c I really loved Richard Adams' writing in "Watership Down." bleh.
I just re-read this book, and amazingly enough, it was just as good as the first time through (when I was in high school). By the same author as Watership Down, it couldn't be more different, except that it is equally imaginative. Maia is a slave girl who lives in a fully-detailed fictional world. This book would appeal to anyone who cherishes the occasional brilliant fantasy or historical novel, although it is strictly neither. It is pure fun. Once you get pulled into Maia's world, you're happy
There's nothing really wrong with this book. The prose is skilled, if not my style, the political plots are dense and well-developed, and I liked the worldbuilding and general idea. Unfortunately, Maia is my least favorite type of character: naive to the point of stupidity, beautiful, always good-hearted and beloved of everybody she meets - I found her totally boring and was hoping she would die and let Occula take over the narration, because at least she had personality beyond "yay please have
great storytelling. sexist in the extreme. this book has been redubbed "Maia: Nubile Wench" in our household.
This is one of my very favorite books, I have read this book numerous times and enjoy it every single time. The heroine is not typical. She is extremely naïve and young, but this does not equal dumb. She submits to the world (as a slave must) but is able to retain her nature and basic character to remain uncorrupted by a predominately hedonistic society. I think a lot of what makes me like Maia as a character is that while bad (IRL traumatic) stuff happens to her, she chooses to not be
Sometimes when you read a book, it just seems to call out to you; you suddenly know that you will love it and it will be special to you. This was the case with Maia. There is no review I can give this that will do this book justice. It has been a journey. It has been an adventure. I will never forget this novel and it has surely warmed my heart and found a place in it.This book was very little like I expected from the synopsis. I remember coming across it here on GoodReads and being intrigued.
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