The best is yet to come. 1

I'll start by pointing out that the comments complained that there are too vocabulary: it is a fact, we are not in the presence of Marc Levy or Guillaume Musso. And moreover the vocabulary is in line with the fantastic world of the novel, where a sustained turn. But there is not much need for help of a dictionary: just be carried away by the story and imagine in the scene, and the meaning of words comes from himself.
Unlike Winning the war, the novel has little action: the story unfolds slowly, sometimes we want to skip a paragraph or two. It is complex, many questions are outlined and the responses are desired, it is sometimes baffled by the chronological order of the narrative.
In short, the difference is obvious compared to Winning the war, but not out seems very pale. But this is to forget that this is the first volume of a trilogy. And it is this element that pushed me to finish this book quickly, to see how goupillerait different and many elements presented. And I remember that, as Saxena said at the end of the book, "It's not finished."
This first volume laid the scenery, accurately, perhaps at the expense of efficiency. He built the main character, Bellovesus, by the secondary characters, the narrated events: the volume opens with a young boy, he closes with a young warrior king. He defined the future course of the work, more epic.
In conclusion, I look forward to the future.