Chronicles of the Black Company
Contains the first three Black Company novels: THE BLACK COMPANY, SHADOWS LINGER and THE WHITE ROSEThe series that brought grittiness to Fantasy and became a bestseller in the US finally comes to the UK.Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do...
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Contains the first three Black Company novels: THE BLACK COMPANY, SHADOWS LINGER and THE WHITE ROSEThe series that brought grittiness to Fantasy and became a bestseller in the US finally comes to the UK.Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must. They bury their doubts with their dead.Then comes the prophecy
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780575086623 (0575086629)
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages no: 704
Edition language: English
3 1/2 stars - The Black Company3 1/2 stars - Shadows Linger4 stars - The White Rose-----3 2/3 stars - Average Rating for omnibus edition
Read the first "book", didn't really enjoy it. I found it hard to keep track of what was going on and wasn't given any reason to care about any of the characters. Not going to be reading the rest.
"Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey."war is hell. hell is other people. other people are other people. other people have their problems. i have my own problems. my peop...
Epic, gritty combination of swords and sorcery, military and noir fiction. This series is one of my all time favorite fantasy series.I found Cook's writing style to be sparse and to the point, it made me want to keep reading. I enjoyed the jaded, cynical nature of the annalist, Croaker. I very much ...
I think this book may have been even better than everyone said it was.
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