The Will of the Many started off feeling like a cross between the political setting of Red Rising and the magic system of The Fifth Season. The world felt big, but not particularly filled in — the author throws out place names and countries, and we meet characters from different corners of the now world-spanning Catenan Republic, but the places don’t feel particularly differentiated or deep. A map would have helped here, but maybe the author has a reason to hold one back. While the worldb...
