The Thousand Names Book Review

by The Wanderer

Author: Django Wexler
Publisher: Roc
Genre: Flintlock Fantasy, Military Fantasy
Series: The Shadow Campaigns Book One
Pages: 513

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The Thousands Names is the first book in Django Wexler’s Shadow Campaigns, a planned five book series. Wexler combines a character named chapter structure that’s similar to the style George R.R. Martin uses in Game of Thrones, while writing in the genre of a flintlock military fantasy.

The combination’s pretty effective as Wexler gives readers some well flushed out main characters, but a pretty straight forward plot that only really opens up at the end.  Nevertheless we’d recommend Wexler’s book to fans of military fantasy, character driven fantasy, and historical influenced fantasy – particularly if you’re interested in military history from the 18th and 19th centuries.