The Strength of the Few by James Islington

The highly anticipated follow-up to The Will of the Many- one of 2023’s most lauded and bestselling fantasy novels.

The Hierarchy still call me Vis Telimus. They still, as one, believe they know who I am.

But with all that has happened-with what I fear is coming-I am not sure it matters anymore.

I am no longer one. I won the Iudicium, and lost everything-and now, impossibly, the ancient device beyond the Labyrinth has replicated me across three separate worlds. A different version of myself in each of Obiteum, Luceum, and Res. Three different bodies, three different lives. I have to hide; fight; play politics. I have to train; trust; lie. I have to kill; heal; prove myself again, and again, and again.

I am loved, and hated, and entirely alone.

Above all, though, I need to find answers before it’s too late. To understand the nature of what has happened to me, and why.

I need to find a way to stop the coming Cataclysm, because if all I have learned is true, I may be the only one who can.

PRAISE-

‘Phenomenal! One of the best high fantasy novels I’ve read in years-think Red Rising meets The Name of the Wind. I couldn’t put it down.’ Lynette Noni on The Will of the Many

The highly anticipated follow-up to The Will of the Many-one of 2023’s most lauded and bestselling fantasy novels.

About the Author: James Islington is the author of The Licanius Trilogy which has sold more than a million copies around the world. He was born in Frankston in 1981, and raised in Cranbourne South. He now lives on the Mornington Peninsula.

11 Nov 2025
 

The Strength of the Few: the epic sequel to the fantasy bestseller (Hierarchy Book 2) by James Islington ISBN 9781923058507