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A review by truthlessofcanada
The Silver Spike by Glen Cook
4.0
This is technically not a novel of The Black Company, but it is kinda dumb that this is book 3.5. It is just as long as the 3 books before it, and takes place pretty close after, and follows a bunch of the same characters, and directly continues some storylines.
Basically it is book 4, but doesn't have the protagonist, so is called book 3.5.
Once again I enjoyed it quite a lot, although my enjoyment was less even.
I really liked the start right of the bat, but then there was a pretty decent section of the middle that is my least favorite section of Black Company so far. One bit that felt totally unnecessary , and an antagonist who I am just over. Please stay dead, you stopped being initiating 3 books ago.
But then this book has a convergence, and it is glorious, and some really fantastic stuff is in there.
Also in the bind up this is after books 4 and 5, and I am glad I listened to people and read it before, because there is some stuff that happened in here that I feel like has to be important, and has to be spoiled by books 4 and 5. My biggest worry was that because this was book 3.5 it would be a book were the status quo in the main characters lives doesn't change, and that is very much not the case.
8.1/10
Basically it is book 4, but doesn't have the protagonist, so is called book 3.5.
Once again I enjoyed it quite a lot, although my enjoyment was less even.
I really liked the start right of the bat, but then there was a pretty decent section of the middle that is my least favorite section of Black Company so far. One bit that felt totally unnecessary , and an antagonist who I am just over. Please stay dead, you stopped being initiating 3 books ago.
But then this book has a convergence, and it is glorious, and some really fantastic stuff is in there.
Also in the bind up this is after books 4 and 5, and I am glad I listened to people and read it before, because there is some stuff that happened in here that I feel like has to be important, and has to be spoiled by books 4 and 5. My biggest worry was that because this was book 3.5 it would be a book were the status quo in the main characters lives doesn't change, and that is very much not the case.
8.1/10