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Sold into slavery to the dealer Lalloc by her mother when her stepfather seduces her, the beautiful 15-year-old Maia is almost raped by Genshed, one of Lalloc's employees but is saved by Occula, a black slave girl. With no-one but Occula at her side, Maia must summon all her courage, strength and intelligence as she navigates the seedy side of the Beklan empire.
Maia is a sequel to Shardik (actually a "prequel", since the events happen several years before those of Shardik), but I found it a major disappointment. The background has the same depth of detail as Shardik , but where the latter is an almost religious novel, centred around a bear and one man's search for meaning, Maia seems to have much more in common with modern "genre" fantasy novels.
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"Maia" by Richard Adams is an unknown, incredibly underrated novel An author known for Watership Down, has written other incredible fantasy novels that are not even in print anymore. Someone gave me a bunch of old books and among them was "Maia", and I can say it has become absolutely one of my favorite novels of all time.
The novel actually serves as a prequel to Adams' previous endeavor, Shardik (itself an underrated and beautiful work), but Adams takes his Beklan Empire to new levels of epic sophistication with the introduction of the naive and good-hearted Maia; the grotesque and unforgettable Sencho; the wise and gutsy Occula; and the erotic, ambitious, and ...
Will You Marry Me, Again? is a Romance novel, telling a story of After a forced divorce, Maia Burgess became trapped in a web of lies that led to her apparent death in a fire.A year later, she resurfaced. Maia was now the CEO of Starlight Entertainment and determined to expose those who had wronged her.She became the top dog in high society.
3 feb 1986 · Maia. Mass Market Paperback – February 3, 1986. by Richard Adams (Author) 4.5 448 ratings. Book 1 of 2: Beklan Empire. See all formats and editions. 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 ...
