--- product_id: 22762394 title: "Inda" brand: "sherwood smith" price: "AR$51130" currency: ARS in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/22762394-inda store_origin: AR region: Argentina --- # Inda **Brand:** sherwood smith **Price:** AR$51130 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Inda by sherwood smith - **How much does it cost?** AR$51130 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.ar](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/22762394-inda) ## Best For - sherwood smith enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted sherwood smith brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Inda ## Images ![Inda - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/810M7V-YOnL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal start to a new series *by J***T on Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2009* Sherwood Smith's Inda is such a wonderful book. To begin with, Smith has created a world full of all the details and history that many of us crave and so seldom find. Smith takes the time to do more than simply tell a story. She creates a really vibrant backdrop for the characters to act against and the result is something a cut above most of the fantasy being written today.Inda (his actual name is Indevan-Dal) is the second son of a noble family. Sounds terribly cliché, I know. Inda's lot in life is to be trained by his older brother as the head of defense for the family's castle. The social rules and traditions of his Marlovan heritage demand that his role be completely subordinate to his brother's rule. Inda's family history intensifies this because Inda's father's first wife was slaughtered by a pirate raid. The culture he is growing up in is very martial and based on tradition.The heart of the story is about societal and personal change and the plot is replete with interesting politics and strong statements about social injustice. The characters meet every sort of moral challenge that you can imagine. In fact, this emphasis on morality and ethics reminded me of Janny Wurts' novels, and that is high praise indeed.Inda is a leader. He's not a flashy, self-motivated leader, but the rarest form of leader who is loyal to those who are loyal to him and who doesn't place personal gain ahead of team accomplishment. Smith does a brilliant job of describing how this sort of magnetic personality can be a lighting rod for both good and bad depending on whether he is recognized as an ally or a threat.As a part of the storyline, Inda is separated from his family and home because of crimes he didn't commit. Smith successfully creates some really loathsome characters for us to hate in the forms of the heir to the throne and his uncle, the king's brother. Kudos to Smith who doesn't just tell us they are "bad guys," but who plans and draws them as well as she does the "good guys."I appreciated that Smith skillfully presented some volatile issues (e.g. homosexuality) in a non-advocative fashion whereas some authors prefer to hit us over the head with their views. Her way was to merely present a point of information rather than something we felt the need to take a side on -- a good use of different perspectives.The final highlight of Sherwood Smith's Inda is her ability to realistically depict military themes in a fantasy setting. The concepts of training, practice, education, and development in a martial context are some of the best that I have encountered. I love the way that she depicts soldiers as being made -- not born.My review of The Fox, the next book in the Inda series, will be done soon. Inda was that good. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars "Ender's Game" for fantasy fans *by P***O on Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2013* Well perhaps that's not quite fair. Ender's Game is a science-fiction classic that's been told and retold, translated all around the world and soon to be destroyed by Hollywood -- but the correlation is there. Inda's self-identification as a "surplus" child, his unlikely selection for advanced military training, his inevitable isolation from all those who he loves and cares about, the demonstration of his remarkable martial skills, the pressure of "saving the world", etc. Despite the similarities, Sherwood Smith weaves an interesting story with these familiar themes and even takes our hero on an interesting side-journey to become a pirate, every little boy's dream-come-true!The writing is well-paced, the characters are satisfactorily developed and believable (if a tad sexually-melodramatic... Is it necessary to make Sponge become THAT surly because he can't get laid?), and the plot is very engaging, though it does become difficult to follow as the conflict develops. I think better maps and more battle diagrams would have helped in that regard, but that's a problem in most fantasy novels I've read. Why describe momentous and detailed battle scenes without giving the reader a visual reference? It just becomes unintelligible, hack-n-slash chaos.Overall I enjoyed the novels and story. It's not ridiculously juicy or epic as has become trendy nowadays, but its a fun read! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Game of Thrones *by A***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2015* I just finished A Song of Ice and Fire. It's a good read, but the Inda series stands head and shoulders above it. Why?1. Better World Building--Smith's world is logical and consistent and detailed. Martin's is detailed, but seems overly borrowed from our own.2. Better Martial writing--Smith makes battles, on land or at sea, come alive and make sense, even to this ignorant female. I'd bet half my income, Smith has studied military history, and she makes me want to study it too. Martin writes of trebuchets, rams, and siege towers, but never seems to live or be more than a general sketch. Putting in a bunch of rape, torture and cannibalism doesn't make combat seem any more real in the Game of Thrones books.3. Tighter writing--Smith's books aren't short, but she did cut the fluff. Every character who is developed has a purpose and moves the story forward. Contrast that with Martin's approach--He seems to add characters on a whim, and then feel the need to develop them even though they don't move the story. In a good novel, all the plot lines and characters should be moving toward the fulfilling climax. Smith's do. Reading her books, one gets the feeling she knew the entire story before she put pen to paper. In Martin's case, I had the feeling I was reading one story in the beginning of A Game of Thrones, which grew into at least 3 entirely different stories by its end. By the end of A Storm of Crows, I had no idea how many different stories I was supposed to be reading, and some of them stopped being stories and became an exercise in making up heraldry.4. Goodness--I know we're all supposed to intellectual and modern and to glory in stories where everyone is bad. But, I like books where the protagonists are decent and try to do the right thing even though they mess up. Epics are only epics when they give the reader something to aspire to. The Fox is my favorite character in the Inda series, and he's certainly not good and pure, but he transcends the animal nature. Generally, I'd rather hang with the people in Inda than in Game of Thrones.5. No incest in Inda. I could have listed this under "goodness," but I find incest pretty disturbing. It's weird, and in the first 2 books in Song of Ice and Fire, there's a fair amount of it.No contest--Sherwood Smith is a better writer and her Inda's books are a joy to read. 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