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The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns)
Django Wexler
2013 · Fantasy
How it reads
The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns) is fantasy (military fantasy, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.
It's set in an invented world, in no single period, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are war, power and politics and justice. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It opens a series. The ending resolves happily. It's a long book, and a real commitment. It's moderately known: read by plenty of people, but not a household name.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something tense
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you like disappearing into an invented world
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or heartwarming
- you want dense, lingering prose
- you want something you can finish this weekend
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- fantasy
- Author gender
- male
- Author experience
- established
- Setting: place
- fictional world
- Setting: time
- timeless or multiple
- Mood / feeling
- tense
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- long
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- moderately known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- war, power and politics, justice
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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