carrot_khan 's review for:

The Thousand Names by Django Wexler

4.0

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I don't normally get into any book that is nothing but fighting. Generally its just filler and rarely does it add anything to the story save resentful boredom on the part of the reader for having to slog through it to get back to the good stuff. However, for a book that starts off with technologically advanced outsiders involved in the civil war of a backwater protectorate, it actually furthered both plot and character nicely without being bogged down with endless skirmish descriptions. Just enough fighting to remind everyone that the war is a cover for a deeper story that will pick up neatly in book two. The characters are real and believable and so are their motivations. While the technology gap is somewhat inconsistent one in particular aspect, it isn't so jarring a detail. I wish some of the flash backs were better explains, for they are tantalizing in their story, but maybe that will also come in the second book.