Mixedthousand names I actually really like a thousand names but this series really dropped the ball
The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns) (2013)
Others: Mostly negative Winter Ihernglass poses as a man to enlist in the Vordanai Colonials and must form an allegiance with a new colonel, appointed by the king to restore order, after she's promoted to a command post.
- ISBN:
- 9780451418050
- Length:
- 624 pages
Genres: fantasy
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Mixed
Not a fanThe third book that I DNFed was The Thousand Names by D.J. Wexler. I think what I didn't like about this is that it's a multiple POV story, which I liked that, and it's a like gunpowder fantasy, so it's a fantasy with magic and stuff, but they also have guns. But it seemed very military fantasy focused.