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Port of Shadows by Glen Cook
2.0
Port of Shadows take place amidst the events of the first trilogy of the Black Company Novels - The Books of the North - with the original cast as we first knew it. On the surface, that's a joy because the make-up of the Black Company chops and changes quite a lot once they leave the North. Something here does not ring true though. The tone is different, the language. No-one is quite right and that's before these imposters become even less like their usual selves with the goings on of the novel.
As the events of Port of Shadows proceed, our protagaonists begin to lose their memories and their minds somewhat. They become very self-absorbed. Croaker, our favourite Annalist struggles to put words to paper and I struggled to read the words on the page and commit them to my own memory as the plot plumbed dull depths.
There were some morsels of revelation as we learned a little more about ancient events concerning the Domination and the Lady but the Black Company has gotten through similar scrapes that were much more interesting and much less problematic than what went on here.
As the events of Port of Shadows proceed, our protagaonists begin to lose their memories and their minds somewhat. They become very self-absorbed. Croaker, our favourite Annalist struggles to put words to paper and I struggled to read the words on the page and commit them to my own memory as the plot plumbed dull depths.
There were some morsels of revelation as we learned a little more about ancient events concerning the Domination and the Lady but the Black Company has gotten through similar scrapes that were much more interesting and much less problematic than what went on here.