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Review title: Thin
Product review: I found _Dies the Fire_ a somewhat entertaining but very light read, and this sequel is more of the same. _The Protector's War_ is actually somewhat less annoying in terms of characters: they'e just as thin, but I know not to expect any more than that. I found there were too many character/location threads and shifting back and forth through time, scattering the pacing and confusing things. The chapter headings with locations and dates only underlined this rather than easing it.The wholesale snatching of an historical-legendary scene (Alexander with Oxhead) was off-putting, and then the book was suddenly over a scant chapter or two later.On a visual note, I could hardly stand the font used, which had punctuation so small as to be barely distinguishable--all the more of a pain as Stirling used a minimum of three semi-colons a page.
