Book Review: Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook
Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook
My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
Series: The Chronicles of the Black Company (Book #1-3 of 9)
Genre: Fantasy, Grimdark fantasy, Epic Fantasy
Pages: 704 pages (US Omnibus edition)
Published: 18th September, 2018 by Gollancz (UK) & 13th November 2017 by Tor Books (US)
The Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook is a series that Steven Erikson has praised intensely for a long time now, it’s even considered to be his inspiration for Malazan Book of the Fallen and after reading this omnibus, I can certainly see why.
There were many aspects that displayed them; similarities between the Bridgeburners and the Black Company, a storytelling style that drops readers into the midst of the plot without any clear explanation, just to name a few without spoilers. The differences between Erikson and Cook would be that Erikson’s series is gigantically more massive in scope and difficulty. Chronicles of the Black Company omnibus comprises of the first three books in the series: The Black Company, Shadows Linger, and The White Rose. These three made up for the first story arc in the series: Books of the North story arc. Same as my review for Riyria Revelations omnibuses, I won’t be writing a full review for each book but I’ll write a mini-review for each book in this volume instead. …