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    <body><![CDATA[And... a new series starts with a new narrator, Murgen, who for some reason jumps confusingly between times, as well as having an explicable method to observe other places.  I understand what Cook's experimenting with in the next few novels, and I admire the attempt, but Cook's strengths are plot we...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49395601">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a book worth reading if you are continuing the series but not a &quot;fun&quot; book to read just for kicks. it will quite often just leave you hanging with your mouth open thinking what did i miss? an idea for if you do plan on reading it, skip the flash backs and only read the present date chapter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79822461">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite being slightly hard to find and expensive because it's out of print, this is a must read for anyone who's read the first 6 Black Company novels.  Be prepared to search for the next book in this fantastic series, She is The Darkness.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive......I am Murgen, Standard bearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Annals because Croaker is dead., One-Eye won't, and hardly anyone else can read or write. I will be your guide for however long it takes the Shadowlanders to force our present predicament to its inevitable end....&quot;So writes Murgen, seasoned veteran of the Black Company. The Company has taken the fortress of Stormgard from the evil Shadowlanders, lords of darkness from the far reaches of the earth. Now the waiting begins.Exhausted from the siege, beset by sorcery, and vastly outnumbered, the Company have risked their souls as well as their lives to hold their prize. But this is the end of an age, and great forces are at work. The ancient race known as the Nyueng Bao swear that ancient gods are stirring. the Company's commander has gone mad and flirts with the forces of darkness. Only Murgen, touched by a spell that has set his soul adrift in time, begins at last to comprehend the dark design that has made pawns of men and god alike.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Continuing the story of the Black Company, this novel is rather confusing and disjointed. The conceit that Murgen can send his consciousness forth, so he can personally witness events in different times with different characters is... contrived.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the black company series never disappoints me. this is the first of the final four volumes in the ten-volume series. if anything, I like these last four even more than the first six.<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Part of the Black Company Series.  I believe this one deals with the siege and is the one where Murgen is the Analyst?  If so it was a very interesting writing style.  Good book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dudes, I can't get enough of the Black Company.  Love it!!!  ]]></body>
    
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