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So much promise, yet such muted delivery. The main activity in this installment is arguing and trying to be clever. With all the exciting issues open at the end of book one, my expectation was a book like the first, but even better. I was wrong.

All the characters from the previous book seem to be thinned out and weakened. The villain, built up to be an evil mastermind turns into an egotistical bumbler. Janus is rarely seen except when he swoops down again and again like a fairy godmother version of Sherlock Holmes, and sets an elaborate plan in motion to save everyone from everything. It gets to be formulaic.

The interesting parts concerning the Thousand Names are for the next book? Huge questions remain from the first book that are never addressed. It isn't until the very last pages that Wexler gives a taste of the secret battle driving the enemy confrontations.

I won't be reading any further in this series.


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The Shadow Throne Shadow Campaigns Book 2 edition by Django Wexler Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

No where near as good as the first. Fantasy literature often lives and dies by the strength of it's "evil" characters. The major bad dude Orlanko in this book is not frightening - he's portrayed as faulty and overconfident from the start. In the last book we had a whole host of interesting bad and potentially bad characters - from the masked desert guy to the mother to the "spy" embedded in the ranks, to the bully soldiers.

This book, in contrast, lines up as good vs. bad. And if the bad isn't all that bad, it's just boring.
The story begun in the first book was good enough that it outshone the long-winded voice of the author. Even in his large scale battles he has a tendency to go off on tangents and loses a bit of his tempo. Even still, the larger battles are where this author does shine! As little of it as I have seen, I will also say that the magic of his world seems mysterious and varied, and I like that part as well. Unfortunately Wexler's style tends toward an excessive use of commas, and this often leads him down a path of telling rather than showing his world. As much as I want to see where the story goes from here, I am going to be stopping with the first two books.
While longer than the first book in the series, it feels shorter due to all the pages you'll skim waiting for something interesting to happen. While I won't spoil it, the dramatic turn of the second act follows real-world history so slavishly, you might as well go get a history book on the relevant era and check off parallels - it'll be more fun than watching the characters make the mistakes you already know they're going to make for the sake of historical accuracy.

All in all, a mild disappointment - a second book suffering from 'middle of the trilogy' syndrome, where it wastes too much time linking the first and last acts to be too terribly good in its own right.
The Shadow Throne, by Django Wexler, is the second book in a series of novels dealing with the beleaguered kingdom of Vordan. Set in a time resembling the early years of Napoleon, in geography that could be Europe. It is a tale of war, political treachery and, a mysterious, ancient, and looming evil.
The first book, The Thousand Names, introduced some of the characters who are continued in The Shadow Throne Lt. Ihernglass, Capt. d' Ivorie and Major Vhalnich , veterans of an earlier victorious war against a native army led by a sorcerer. Now they have returned home to Vordan, where the king is near death and the heir, daughter Raesinia is trying to gain control of a seething populace teetering on the edge of revolution. The enemy is not the people, but the head of the Ministry of Information, one Duke Orlanko, who heads a secret army of assassins and thugs., and rapacious " tax farmers" who skin everyone.
Author Django Wexler takes a bit of time in this 500 page book to describe what is going on in Vordan, setting up its competing factions and rivalries. He uses the first hundred or so pages well to flesh out his characters, as well as to give the reader a feel for the building tension in the kingdom. When violence erupts, it explodes across the pages.
In a way The Shadow Throne reminded me of A Tale Of Two Cities, the Dickens classic novel of the French Revolution. Innocent people are caught up in sweeping events; evil people manipulate and scheme.Soldiers choose side and fight against odds, factions unite or perish. But beyond that familiar story is that under everything is a disturbing, encroaching evil, possessing some, controlled by others who have the Book of A thousand Names.

I read the first book, and it would help a reader to get a sense of what was going on, but it is not totally necessary to enjoy this book. What it would do is to assure the reader that he/ she is in the hands of a skilled author who sets the stage and puts everyone in motion at the right time and direction.
A very good second novel and worth putting on your reading list. A bit hard to categorize call it a history of a fantasy world or a fantasy history of the world. Whatever, I recommend it.

Notes some romantic sex, some mild combat violence, a bit of black magic, but no walking dead this time...but who knows what the Wexler has plotted for the next installment. am looking forward to it.
So much promise, yet such muted delivery. The main activity in this installment is arguing and trying to be clever. With all the exciting issues open at the end of book one, my expectation was a book like the first, but even better. I was wrong.

All the characters from the previous book seem to be thinned out and weakened. The villain, built up to be an evil mastermind turns into an egotistical bumbler. Janus is rarely seen except when he swoops down again and again like a fairy godmother version of Sherlock Holmes, and sets an elaborate plan in motion to save everyone from everything. It gets to be formulaic.

The interesting parts concerning the Thousand Names are for the next book? Huge questions remain from the first book that are never addressed. It isn't until the very last pages that Wexler gives a taste of the secret battle driving the enemy confrontations.

I won't be reading any further in this series.