8-12-12 The Other Lands by David Anthony Durham - Fiction

5 - A fantastic follow up to the first book, Acacia.  Corinne is queen and the power is going a bit to her head.  She sends her brother, Dariel, across the ocean to the Other Lands as an envoy but is double crossed by the League and does not know the fate of her brother.  She sends Mena to hunt the twisted creatures created during the war.  But her sister is certainly not her pawn.  Still a lot of political finagling in this book and some new factions enter play.  I was enthralled.