**99 Names of Caeden **
- Certainty is hubris […] it is arrogance and Bluster. *
Like most trilogies, Islington has the unenviable task of setting up a broader story within the reasonable confines of the first story and for higher stakes. He lands it… mostly. In our world of magic oligopoly, the characters are limited but the plots many. This means that an Echo of Things to Come uses every literary trick possible to squeeze a maximum number of revelations out of its few characters. Time travel, amnesia, partial amnesia, disguises, deception and miscommunicated names all play their role in the gears of Islington’s mythology. These tricks mostly land, but by the end I was seeing a new alias for an old character behind every chapter heading.