Worse, it didn’t feel like a tightly or smoothly linked collection, if that was what it meant to be. I couldn’t find many reviews from sites other than Goodreads or Amazon, but I did manage to find one.īill Capossere of Fantasy Literature states: “The Black Company strand felt entirely too episodic, so much so that I actually wondered for a while if this was supposed to be a collection of linked short stories rather than a novel. So which way did the story fall? Read on to discover my thoughts, and as usual there are going to be minor spoilers, with a section of major spoilers at the end. When Port of Shadows was first announced, I was both excited and a little nervous: excited that it was set after the first book, but nervous that it would have too many elements of the latter books, and I had some problems with some of Cook’s Garrett PI books. Later books in the series dropped in quality, though I still read them religiously upon release. Its importance to my love of the fantasy fiction genre cannot be underestimated. Witty with equal amounts of action and mischief, the characters come alive and the villains are outstanding. The Black Company stands out as one of the top 10 books I have ever read. One sentence synopsis: The Black Company tries to head off rebellion against The Lady as well as the threat of the Dominator returning, while Croaker becomes a family man who tries to fight off memory loss that could affect the precious Annals, the history of The Black Company.
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