The Black Company
Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead.Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn,...
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Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead.Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more.There must be a way for the Black Company to find her...
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780812521399 (0812521390)
ASIN: 812521390
Publish date: March 15th 1992
Publisher: Tor Fantasy
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Series: The Chronicles of the Black Company (#1)
Yay! A new, fat, juicy, doorstopper of a series for me. I really should have tried before but the hype, the debate over series order and all the "iconic origin of grimdark" claims had me pausing. It is a fairly traditional epic fantasy from the voice of a soldier and physician. A world without exa...
It was a night for screams. A broiling, sticky night of the sort that abrades that last thin barrier between the civilized man and the monster crouched in his soul. The screams came from homes where fear, heat, and overcrowding had put too much strain on the monster’s chains. There are no self-pro...
This series focuses on the exploits of a mercenary company (the black company) that at the start of the first book gets roped into serving a force of evil. We then follow said company through the eyes of its annalist as they fulfill their tour. The first thing that stood out to me was the disjoint...
I'd been meaning to read this for years, and really expected to like it better. I'm down with dark fantasy; I don't expect (or want) nothing but sweetness, light, and happy little elves dancing a merry jig. So I didn't have a problem with the rather grim miasma that pervaded this book. But someho...
I was not impressed by this book. People speak very highly of it, and one of these people was Steven Erikson, the author of The Malazan Book Of The Fallen series. Now I quite enjoyed Malazan, and since I enjoy seeking out the influences of things I appreciate, I thought I'd better read me some Glen ...
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