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The Strength of the Few , James Islington's sequel to The Will of the Many , was released this week

The fantasy epic is, Islington admits, a much bigger and stranger sequel than he might have written before he realized his last book would be a smash hit

"Thematically, this is very much about choices and what they make us," he teases

By the time author James Islington realized during Christmas 2023 that TikTok had turned his fantasy book The Will of the Many into something of a sensation — selling out across the U.S. about six months after it was first published that May — he was already well into writing part two, he says.

That was a good thing.

Otherwise Islington might have second-guessed himself and not gone ahead and written The Strength of the Few , the n

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