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The Guns of Empire: 4 Paperback – 4 February 2020

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As the "audacious and subversive"* Shadow Campaigns novels continue, the weather is growing warmer, but the frosty threat of Vordan's enemies is only growing worse...

As the roar of the guns subsides and the smoke of battle clears, the country of Vordan is offered a fragile peace...

After their shattering defeats at the hands of brilliant General Janus bet Vhalnich, the opposing powers have called all sides to the negotiating table in hopes of securing an end to the war. Queen Raesinia of Vordan is anxious to see the return of peace, but Janus insists that any peace with the implacable Sworn Church of Elysium is doomed to fail. For their Priests of the Black, there can be no truce with heretics and demons they seek to destroy, and the war is to the death.

Soldiers Marcus d'Ivoire and Winter Ihernglass find themselves caught between their general and their queen. Now, each must decide which leader truly commands their loyalty--and what price they might pay for final victory.

And in the depths of Elysium, a malign force is rising--and defeating it might mean making sacrifices beyond anything they have ever imagined.

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Publisher : Penguin Publishing Group (4 February 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 480 pages
ISBN-10 : 059310188X
ISBN-13 : 978-0593101889
Dimensions : 13.79 x 2.44 x 20.83 cm

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Another excellently entertaining novel, filled with battles and politics and personalities...It subverts, interrogates, or outright inverts a good few tropes associated with epic fantasy, and with gender roles.--Tor.com

The Guns of Empire...only serves to further cement Django Wexler as one of the best authors currently writing, and his work as truly spellbinding.--Fantasy Book Review

Praise for the Shadow Campaigns Novels

"A fascinating world of dust and bayonets and muskets...and magic."--S.M. Stirling, New York Times Bestselling Author of the Novels of the Change

Gritty, brutal, and yet wonderfully intimate...exceptional military fantasy.--Jason M. Hough, New York Times Bestselling Author of Zero World

"Succeeding volumes may end up doing for the Napoleonic Wars what George R.R. Martin did for the Wars of the Roses. Highly recommended."--Anthony Ryan, New York Times Bestselling Author of the Raven's Shadow Novels

"Without a doubt, the best book of its year."--Simon R. Green, New York Times Bestselling Author of the Secret Histories Novels

"[A] mash-up of seventeenth-century technology and demon-summoning assassins."--*Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Django Wexler is the author of the Shadow Campaigns novels, including The Infernal Battalion, The Guns of Empire, The Price of Valor, The Shadow Throne, and The Thousand Names. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with degrees in creative writing and computer science, and worked for the university in artificial intelligence research. When not planning Shadow Campaigns, he wrangles computers, paints tiny soldiers, and plays games of all sorts. He is also the author of the middle-grade fantasy novels The Forbidden Library, The Mad Apprentice, and The Palace of Glass.

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LeonGov1969

Maintains the quality

Reviewed in Australia on 14 January 2019

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I’ve read the others in this series and have been impressed by the consistency of the quality of the writing. Plotting is good with sufficient twists, characters have depth and the action scenes are first rate. Wexler has constructed an excellent fantasy world with depth and believability.

I’d start at the beginning though, read the novellas too. This is very well done fantasy and is thoroughly enjoyable.

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Please please enough of the girl warrior stuff. Otherwise its okay but the girl warrior stuff just pulls me out of the story. I

Reviewed in Australia on 5 November 2016

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Enough of the girl warriors. It is just so unrealistic it pulls me out of the book. Yes in history there are accounts of some and this is why they get a mention because it was rare.

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I love this series as it has a sense of gritty ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 August 2016

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Arrrrrrrgggghhh! That was the sound of my frustration on reaching the end of the book. Please write the next installment soon as I really want to know what happens next.

I love this series as it has a sense of gritty realism combined with a story full of all the elements we like to see in a really good fantasy novel. The demonology 'lore' is handled imaginatively, the story twists and turns in unanticipated ways, new mysteries are introduced and the characters grow and develop as they meet and surmount the challenges in their way.

In summary, this is a series that just keeps getting better as it goes along. Highly recommended.

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Selina

Fantasy at its best

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 February 2019

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Fantasy should send both impossible and real, and Wexler achieves both in this fourth book of the Shadow Campaigns. Gritty details of battle vies with magical subterfuge. I recommend this series to anyone who takes fantasy seriously. It deserves wide attention.

Designstacker

Not as good as the others

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2018

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Much of the later part of the book is just padding (white warriors etc) I just hope the next is much better

Neil Chapman-Blench

Excellent writer - keep up the good work!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2017

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Excellent writer - keep up the good work!

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Solid book, but I'm worried where this is going...

Reviewed in Canada on 23 November 2018

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The war between the revolutionary Vordan and it's enemies continues as the brilliant First Consul Janus bet Vhalnich leads the greatest army of the age into the northern wastes to assault the holy city of Elysium- and the secretive Priests of the Black it hides.

Aided by Winter Ihernglass, Marcus D'ivoire and a number of other commanders, Janus continues his secret war against the priests and their demonic servants, the Penitent Damned. But a far more serous threat looms, as the priests cross successive lines in order to stop the victorious army.

The book starts out being a very solid fantasy military fiction, with a decently "epic" scope, as Wexler conducts the marches of various armies across the map, while offering good peeks in the trenches, and weaving in character development, while introducing new characters and expanding the world-building.

The story builds up until a point about four-fifths in, where the "Magic" part of "Muskets & Magic" completely hijacks the plot. A really, really major thing happens, and it threatens to devolve the series" plot from a complex and messy political intrigue where all sides have relatable motivations into a heroes vs a big bad evil conflict, which would be a shame that could undermine the story.

While all the good things about the series are still here- the good pacing, the interesting, if somewhat formulaic characters, the well-written battles and covert action- the turns the plot takes in the end leave me wary of the series' outcome. I've had similar worries about the ending of the "Shadows of the Apt" and several other series where the authors pulled out a pretty generic world-leading threat out of nowhere towards the end of the series, and it doesn't often work out without the diminishing the impact of the series as a whole.

I'm very cautious about how Wexler handles this, as it'd be a real shame to have a generally interesting series devolve into something generic.

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