Fantasy Book Club discussion

Post here if you are reading The Thousand Names. I will also open a thread where the author Django Wexler will answer questions about this book.

Just starting it. It has been on my to-read pile sense I first heard of it.

Will join in. i read it a few months back.

Greg, Django is on the other thread. :)

Greg wrote: "I have some questions, although I have to admit I haven't heard of you till now.

Also, not sure if this is the thread for author questions, so feel free to move it.

1. How did you make the transi..."

We have no way to move your post. Repost it in the Aurhor Q&A thread, please.

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Halfway done already!

Count me in!

I thought the prologue was great; it definitely hooked me from the start. Right now I'm about 1/5 of the way in so far and holding out high hopes for the rest of the story. I'm eager to learn more about all of the main characters that have been introduced so far, which is always a good sign!

Weird, I thought the prologue was a mess of too many names all at once, and it's a bit over the top. The parts about Winter and especially Marcus seemed more maturely written to me.

I'll be starting this one this weekend.

My son is reading this one. I read it a few months back. I was planning to skim over it again to join in on this discussion but he snagged it off my desk. I'll post his comments and what I remember.

I'm about 13% in so far...a little slow but it's picking up speed.

I agree with DavidO on the prologue, too much exposition, just didn't seem as well written as the following chapters and it left me really confused about who was who and what was happening.

Really like the characterization so far, still too early to tell how I feel about the worldbuilding though.

picked up the audiobook for this one, looking forward to starting it soon.

I've been switching back and forth between listening to the audiobook and actually reading the thing...the narration is really pretty good, but I just finished listening to Joe Abercrombie's "First Law" series, and the narration on those books really spoiled me lol

Just bought it. I've been looking forward to it.

I'm about halfway through and I agree with the comments about the prologue not being as good as what came after. My fave character, by far, is Winter. I wasn't too sure about all the military strategy but it has bogged the story down too much so far. I'm really enjoying it so far.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through. It's a good 4 stars for me right now. I absolutely love how he handles battles scenes. Far too many people just focus on a little 1 vs. 1 fight and use some hand wavium to explain what happened on the rest of the field. He uses more of the overhead, grand view of the battle so we can see how all of it is progressing.

Just getting started....

Luke wrote: "I'm about 2/3 of the way through. It's a good 4 stars for me right now. I absolutely love how he handles battles scenes. Far too many people just focus on a little 1 vs. 1 fight and use some hand w..."

I agree, I really enjoy that aspect of this book