Durham also does a nice job with many of his characters, giving them interesting motivations and decisions to make. While some are clearly heroic figures and others plainly villains, others are more complicated and I enjoyed having my sympathies shift back and forth as the book went on.
It is my understanding that the author intends this saga to run as a trilogy, and no more. I like that there is an end in sight – there will be a plan and a deadline by which to wrap up all the plot threads. Although Acacia is a big book, and I have no reason to expect any smaller tomes for the second and third installments, this should not dissuade fantasy fans from this new epic. Book One of the Acacia Trilogy is well-written and intelligent fantasy, full of schemes and magic and machinations and bloody battles. There’s something for everyone in Acacia.
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