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Maybe I'm just not that interested in the band-of-mercenary-men-fighting-a-war thing or maybe it was the writing style that just didn't do it for me, but I found it really difficult to get into this book.
Pros: I do like the intricate history and the background that the author has created; it's a well developed world with rich characters and lore. Cons: There just wasn't much in the plot to draw me in. The story was all right, and even had a few twists to keep things interesting, and yet I had t ...more
Pros: I do like the intricate history and the background that the author has created; it's a well developed world with rich characters and lore. Cons: There just wasn't much in the plot to draw me in. The story was all right, and even had a few twists to keep things interesting, and yet I had t ...more
This book was the influence behind Steven Erikson's epic fantasy, Malazan Book of the Fallen.
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Started off really enjoying the book this time around, but it's favor wore itself out when Croaker dreams about diddling pair 12 year old girls. Think he was a bit unsettled by it. But still...
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This is another book suggested for a monthly read by a fantasy group. Having not read any of Mr. Cooks novels beforehand, and reading somewhere that this author was influential in a few of today’s modern epic fantasy authors, I decided to crack this cover open.
I must admit that the first couple of chapters are an awakening in the sense that I have not quite read anything like this type of writing before. At times I felt lost in that the story seems to start in the middle of some adventure that ...more
I must admit that the first couple of chapters are an awakening in the sense that I have not quite read anything like this type of writing before. At times I felt lost in that the story seems to start in the middle of some adventure that ...more
This one wasn't for me.
I don't even know exactly why - I just didn't get sucked into the story.
It was an ok read, but I didn't really care about any of the characters.
The story somehow jumped around in my eyes. It wasn't really one continuous story line, but something here, something there, something somewhere.
The problem was not at all that it's quite dark - I loved the night angel series for example - but somehow it just stayed completely unemotional for me. I think if the whole Black company ...more
I don't even know exactly why - I just didn't get sucked into the story.
It was an ok read, but I didn't really care about any of the characters.
The story somehow jumped around in my eyes. It wasn't really one continuous story line, but something here, something there, something somewhere.
The problem was not at all that it's quite dark - I loved the night angel series for example - but somehow it just stayed completely unemotional for me. I think if the whole Black company ...more
The Black Company series is one of the all time favorites.
Not really my style.
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