REVIEW: The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns) by Django Wexler The first two thirds of the book is basically military fantasy similar in the vein of the Malazan books and the Monarchies of God series. Then things move up towards the 'magic' part, which, unfortunately, struck me as weaker for ...
She’d fought it as long as she could, but somewhere on the long, dark trip downstream, fatigue had caught up with her. The mirror-things had been draining her life, sucking her down to a husk before pulling her into the mirror to do . . . who knew what. Her dreams were dark, full of toothy grins ...
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It brought to mind memories of Khandar, which appeared increasingly attractive in retrospect; the situation had been desperate, but at least the sides had been clear and the enemies obvious. Until the very end. He shied away from that thought, memories of his brief time wi...
Every day, Alex sleeps soundly, no matter what I do to try and wake her. She only starts to revive as the sun sets, and once the guards spoon-feed her a bowl of soup, she’s unconscious again in moments. I’ve tried to watch them prepare the soup, but I can’t see very much from my chained position....
She struggled to keep her breathing even. Calm. She tried to think, eyes closed. We found . . . someplace warm. And then . . . She remembered helping the rest of her diminished party through the crack in the rock, into the pleasant air of the strange valley. Alex had been saying something, someth...