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Edition Language:	English
Series:	Empyria #1

Shadows in the Sand (Empyria #1) Kindle Edition | Pages: 208 pages

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Title	:	Shadows in the Sand (Empyria #1)
Author	:	Michael Diack
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	1
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	July 27th 2013
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction

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The deathly Sanghouls have escaped from the Empty Province and, from within their golden dunes, they seek to wipe out all life in Empyria. Unaware of this, the last surviving humans continue going about their daily routine in the city of Nimar. But when the city’s water pool stops refilling, the Nimerians are forced to move into lands of myth and legend.

Only when Prince Viro, an elf of the southern lands, arrives in Nimar do the humans truly understand the threat to their existence. The two races must unite and reclaim the lost seven stones of light – the only weapon that can defeat the demonic shadow enclosing them.

As four of the city’s most talented young men and women, Athmane, Faria, Bayoud and Mary will be critical to Nimar enduring the perils, both natural and unnatural, that await them.

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Ratings: 4.09 From 44 Users | 27 Reviews

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It's like Dune went viral. I'm kidding. It's good. It's original. I liked it. The world was carefully constructed without too much explanation pulling away from the story.The story centers around a few thousand survivors who need to find a new source of water. The pool they depend on is running dry. they need to relocate to another area around Dunein. Shadows in the Sand is their struggle to survive.

I should start with a spoiler alert 'Shadows in the Sand' ends at a perilous point, requiring the next book in the series. If you don't want want to read a gripping novel that is the first of a series, then you shouldn't start 'Shadows in the Sand'. While most fantasy novels are set in worlds resembling medieval Europe, Empyria is much more primitive. Humans only exist in very small clusters of hunter-gathers, with very limited technology. Almost everything they encounter thinks that men are

When an earthquake disrupts the water table, the inhabitants of Nimar some 1,600 people are forced to flee the gravel plains on which they have made their homes as the city faces a series of threats to its survival. The author has created a detailed society structured around four different guilds soldiers, hunters, medics and craftspeople all led by a hierarchy of Masters and Grandmasters. There are some good moments of description, which help bring the setting to life, as well as some

I enjoy a good fantasy, though it isn't typically my genre of choice. Shadows in the Sand was definitely worth the read. Michael Diack does a great job transporting the reader to a world where the last humans are fighting to survive, despite epic beasts and terrible environmental conditions. I will definitely be buying the sequel, as the cliffhanger ending left me wanting more. The characters are well written, the details allowing you to enter into this world without being overwhelming or

This well-planned story is set around the few thousand remnants of the human race following a global cataclysm, who eke out a precarious existence in an area supportive of human life. Their existence is dependent upon a water-pool, which is no longer replenishing itself; they have one month in which to find alternative sources. Parties are sent out, eventually to secure the area around Dunein, where they need to relocate. They experience a succession of graphically-described, vicious battles

Shadows In the Sand Empyria Book One.Shadows in the Sand is the first part of a series of fantasy novels written by the young English writer Michael Diack.Its set in the ancient city of Nimar in Empyria, a desert land where the inhabitants are at risk, for the water supply is running out and it isnt being replaced.The writers expert knowledge of barren desert states comes through strong in his writing.It reminds the reader of Tolkiens stuff and with the fantasy genre enjoying a worldwide boom

It usually takes me a while to be fully drawn into a story; not so with Shadows in the Sand; I was pretty much fully on board from page one. Was it the writers infectious writing style? Or just my penchant for this kind of jump-ahead-to-the-past sci-fi? Set on another world, the struggles of the humans are reminiscent to our age of castles and moats. Theres, whats more, as much fantasy as sci-fi, perhaps more, when you consider the traditional tropes of the either genre. Technically Game of