Days of Our Past: Bloodline of Kings

by G R Burns

Overview

The First Volume in G.R Burns' Epic Saga the Bloodline of Kings.

"Bahira and her beloved younger brother have been captured by the murdering Urudu. She doesn't know why, she doesn't know where they are headed, she feels a breath away from losing everything she holds dear...and she's right.

Can Areoch, the son of an Ancient Sumerian King, find his love Bahira in time to save her?

In a world where faint echoes of oral tradition are all that remain to bridge the gap between folklore and ancient Power, Areoch and Bahira must both come to terms with what is myth and what is Truth...just as we must do now."

Lexile Reading Level: 610L

GLE: 4.7

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781737329190
Publisher:	Pacific Books
Publication date:	10/14/2021
Series:	Bloodline of Kings , #1
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	10 - 12 Years

About the Author

Burns is a K-12 School District administrator and the founder of the Tactical Training Academy, an emergency preparedness agency. He is the author of Forged Through Fire: Developing Preparedness for the Perilous Encounter, and the Bloodline of Kings saga. Burns is a survivor with a first-hand perspective, filtered through his educational background in psychology, the love he has for his family and a desire for peace within his community. His life experience has created a passion to empower others to live to the fullest extent possible.

Editorial Reviews

09/06/2021

In this historic epic, the kickoff to a new series, Bahira, daughter of a wealthy family from Cartegin, has a problem: she and her younger brother Berran have been kidnapped and beaten by the fearsome Urudu, or raiders, of ancient Sumer. After escaping their lusty clutches on the pirate ship Taradium, Bahira finds herself trapped as the Urudu’s slave, separated from her family and sent to work in their high camps. Just a year earlier, Areoch, the adopted son of Sargon the Great, finds himself in Bahira’s household following an attack by a legendary Umu, akin to a saber-toothed tiger. There he falls in love with Bahira, but too late realizes that she comes from an enemy household. Following her kidnapping, Areoch teams up with her father’s army to save Bahira from the Urudu, but along the way must face threats that will challenge everything Areoch thought he knew about himself and his world.

Readers fascinated by Mesopotamia will be impressed with Burns’s fiction debut. Replete with beautiful hand-drawn illustrations and archaeological images, the novel firmly roots its audience in the world of ancient Sumer. Burns has clearly done his research, though at times his attention to detail comes at the expense of plot clarity or narrative momentum. Though the novel is listed as middle-grade fiction, the prose is more adult than its peers, such as The Bartimaeus Trilogy–think more Lord of the Rings than The Hobbit, as it’s densely written and plotted, attentive to historic detail, and not crafted for casual reading.

Parents should also note content that might not be suitable for more sensitive readers, including the passing references to orgies, murder, and graphic depictions of battle found in the prologue alone. Fans of history and epic adventures will find much to love in this saga, however, and can look forward to several more entries planned in the Bloodline of Kings series.

Takeaway: History-loving adventure fans will be engrossed by Burns’s Sumerian-inspired epic.

Great for fans of: Rick Riordan’s The Kane Chronicles, Robert Silverberg’s Gilgamesh the King.

Production grades Cover: A Design and typography: B+ Illustrations: A Editing: B+ Marketing copy: B-

BookLife Reviews

"History-loving adventure fans will be engrossed by Burns' Sumerian-inspired epic. Replete with beautiful hand-drawn illustrations and archaeological images, the novel firmly roots its audience in the world of ancient Sumer." -Publishers Weekly

"Kids & adults of all ages will see that the decisions we make in our own lives intimately entwines into the powerful story of the world...ultimately, readers of Bloodline will see they get to make future ancient history today, and they should face that challenge with courage."

"An Epic Adventure into our Ancient Past."

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