The Shadow Campaigns

If you are looking for some of the best military fantasy to come out the past decade, look no further then Django Wrexler's Shadow Campaigns series. The series has all the things you want in a good military fantasy: on-the-march squad life, tactical battles, genius commanders, military battles against the odds, and epic battles of sorcery. If you like Glen Cook's The Black Company, you'll probably find a lot you'll like about The Shadow Campaigns books. Even better, the prose is very sharp, the tactics and battles logical, and there's complex characters who develop over the series. This is military fantasy with a lot of heart -- and magic.The audiobook version of the story is narrated by Richard Poe who does a crackling job of telling the story. Poe has almost a Shakespearean quality to his voice while reading which adds presence and charisma to the key characters. Many of the top fantasy narrators have a strong British accent, but Poe's powerful yet almost poetic American accent works wonderfully for this story. Poe, along with Michael Krammer, has one of the best American accent male voices. You really feel like you are marching the trenches with the characters, you feel earth shake as the magical battles erupt, and you are pulled along the highs and lows as the characters struggle to survive a world struggling amidst the chaos of magic and war. Poe really gets the military voice beat down perfectly. You feel as though you are part of the military, you can feel the wind whip by as swords sweep down and feel the tremble as cannons boom.So for a top notch military fantasy tale that gets better and better with each book, give The Shadow Campaigns a listen. Book one starts with The Thousand Names and will rock your world.Listen to a sample of Richard Poe narrating The Shadow Campaigns