false <![CDATA[Maia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222657738m/12444.jpg 12444 12 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-traders to be sold as a concubine. She attracts the attention of General Kembri who uses her to obtain information from her admirers and her adventures uncover a plot for civil war. Proclaimed as a heroine, she finds that one sinister result of fame is to have enemies in high places and Maia has to struggle for survival through treachery, cruelty, lost love and a final flight through a wild empire to escape a crumbling regime. 393573 1984 Maia total:325|5:118|4:91|3:87|2:21|1:8| 325 1265 454 50 4 7 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 07:40:46 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 09:39:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Jan 16 18:35:45 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 18:37:05 -0800 2008 4 2 false false Sun Nov 25 20:52:12 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 25 20:52:57 -0800 2007 great storytelling. sexist in the extreme. this book has been redubbed "Maia: Nubile Wench" in our household.

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It's a very, very long book - just over 1200 pages in my PB copy. It follows Maia, a beautiful country girl, who gets sold into slavery and becomes a concubine in the household of the High Counselor o...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Mon Feb 23 21:53:40 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 22:10:56 -0800 2009 1
With that said, I would not necessar...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Jan 12 18:47:39 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 14:27:18 -0800 2009 Shardik, set in the same world, and Adams writes some damn good erotica. So why didn't Maia do it for me?

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