| Acacia: The Sacred Band | |
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Cover of first edition (hardcover) |
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| Author(s) | David Anthony Durham |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Acacia |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy fiction novel |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback and paperback) |
| Pages | 576 pp |
| ISBN | 0307739686 |
| Preceded by | The Other Lands |
Acacia: The Sacred Band is a 2011 novel by American author David Anthony Durham, published by Doubleday. It concludes his Acacia Trilogy, which began with Acacia: The War With The Mein, which won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and was followed by Acacia: The Other Lands.
With the first two books in the Acacia Trilogy, Acacia: The War With The Mein and Acacia: 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—and 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 Song of Elenet. Her younger brother, Dariel, has been sent on a perilous mission 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 rendered with vividly imagined detail and in heroic scale.
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 distinctively Shakespearean sensibility.