Race the Sands is a literary fiction book by author Sarah Beth Durst.
In this epic indie fantasy, the acclaimed author of the Queens of Renthia series introduces an imaginative new world in which a pair of strong and determined women risk their lives to fight the injustice, corruption and dangerous enemies in your journey to become monster racing champion.
Life, death and rebirth – in Becar, who you are in this life determines your next life. However, there is hope – you can change your destiny with your choices. But for the darkest individuals, there is no redemption: you return as a kehok, a monster, and will be doomed to be a kehok for the rest of time.
Unless you can win the Race.
After a famous career as an elite kehok racer, Tamra became a professional trainer. Then a catastrophic accident shattered her confidence, damaged her reputation, and left her almost broke. Now, she needs the prize money to stop the local temple from taking her daughter, and that means she must once again find a winning kehok… and a racer willing to believe. think her.
Raia desperately wants to escape from her domineering family and cruel fiance. As a kehok racer, she can earn enough to buy her freedom. But she needs a first-class coach.
Impressed by the inexperienced young woman’s determination, Tamra hires Raia and pairs her with a strange new kehok capable of winning – if he can be tamed.
But in this sport, if you forget that you are riding on the back of a monster, you will die. Tamra and Raia will work harder than they ever thought possible to win the deadly Becaran Race – and in the process, discover what makes this particular kehok so special.
I enjoyed “Race the Sands” by Sarah Beth Durst. When I started reading it, I was immediately hooked and couldn’t put the book down. This book has everything, the characters I’m interested in developing in the story, lots of action, a well-imagined world and a new fantasy concept. In the land of Becar, the culture is based on living to earn the karma necessary for a good rebirth in the next life. For the terrible people in life (murderers, thieves, traitors, etc.) to be reincarnated in monster form, there is no hope of future reincarnation to raise their souls to one level. better life.
But can a good man somehow be reincarnated by chance (or someone’s design) into a monster? The answer to this question ends up forming the crux of the story. I liked everything about this story, including how it was able to tell an interesting and satisfying story in one book, instead of the now-popular trilogy. I highly recommend this to other readers looking for something new in the fantasy genre.
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Race the Sands
- A Novel
