The Crimson Campaign

Author: Mcclellan, Brian

This has been a good year for sequels. For some reasons, the dreaded 'second in a series' syndrome has been mostly avoided by sequel books so far. Words of Radiance by Sanderson was a good read -- maybe not better than the first, but not a disappointment -- The Shadow Throne was a different book than the first, but in many ways just as good and The Crimson Campaign was better in every way over the first in the series.I was on the fence about this fantasy until this book; now I'm a serious fan of McClellan and feel his gunpowder series is some of the best fantasy to come out in a few years.There's some serious action in this one -- if you want well written, fantasy with a darker bent, with a seriously unique magic system with lots and lots of action, mayhem, and dead bodies, then The Crimson Campaign is your book. Of course, if you've already read the first book, you will definitely read this sequel. If you haven't read the first book, then get on it, because even better things await in the sequel.

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