David Scrimshaw reviewed The thousand names by Django Wexler (Shadow campaigns -- book one)
Review of 'The thousand names' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
This is a fantasy novel that has virtually no magic for most of the book. Instead it's more like one of those circa 1800s war novels where Sharpe is out fighting in the colonies.
As it happens, I love that sort of novel and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I'm going to reserve the next volume in this series right now even though there are indications that it will be more magic focused.