Acelia (History of the Acelian Empire) by S.G.S.

Some parts of the descriptions read like a textbook instead of being interesting explanations of th e history or artifacts. I'm no prude but it seemed way out of place in this story about a ten year old girl and her coming of age. Comes across as a very polite fantasy novel, no language or graphic violence when suddenly there is a very descriptive sex scene albeit brief. Is the world in trouble? Is there a bad guy? Nope. Even then there didnt seem to be a point to the story over halfway in. Story was excruciatingly slow to get going to a pace where you have some sort of normal story telling flow.

So one sentence will be from this persons viewpoint then a couple sentences later a different persons. A lot of different threads going on here and the confusing part is that when two or more of these characters are in the same dialogue viewpoints will change without warning.

Oh and a goodhearted tough guy soldier who i guarding the mage.

But the book also follows a Lord and Lady on campaign, an old mage lady called a widow who seems to forsee all these bad things coming that ar alluded to but never really talked about, and another mage who is on his way to see said widow. Well the story seems to follow a ten year old girl who is evidently a powerful mage but doesnt know it yet. The Assyrians were in turn replaced by the Persian Achaemenid Empire, which were replaced by… well you get the idea.I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. The Assyrians replaced the Akkadians with an even larger, more powerful empire. Though these two empires collapsed, they were inspirations and lessons for later empires. The financial and administrative burden of running the empire made it crumble from within and gave enemy armies an easier target. Dust they could handle, but this expansion was expensive and made a lot of enemies. By contrast, the Assyrian Empire, like many empires since, collapsed because it depended on military expansion. As dust and drought choked Mesopotamian agriculture, whole cities disappeared from the archeological record. Several centuries of dry and dusty conditions-caused by climate change and over-farming-crippled the mighty Akkadian empire.

Why did it collapse so quickly? Archaeologists now believe they have identified the small but powerful culprit: dust. The Akkadian Empire lasted for somewhere between 100 and 200 years.

Acelia (History of the Acelian Empire) by S.G.S.