![]() ![]() ![]() The short story chapters-without transitions between them-are narrated by the company's doctor and historian Croaker to make a single compelling tale. Cook vividly captures the way that men working together in intense situations indulge in petty resentments even as they bond into a family through shared adversity. ![]() It's enjoyable to watch the memorable members of the mercenary Black Company playing cards or pranks and suspenseful to follow them going on dangerous missions. His novel is by turns funny or scary, horrifying or moving, grotesque or beautiful. He writes a hard-boiled fantasy about the heroic feats of human anti-heroes in a world in which, as in our own, the historians of the victors determine good and evil. Glen Cook slaps a devastating battle magic spell on epic fantasy cliches (e.g., evil empire, virtuous rebels, dark lord, blasted wasteland around his headquarters, and clear division of good from evil). Hard Boiled Morally Ambiguous Epic Fantasy ![]()
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