Port of Shadows
A Chronicle of the Black Company
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4.1 • 69 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Glen Cook, the father of Grimdark, returns to the Chronicles of the Black Company with a military fantasy adventure in Port of Shadows.
The soldiers of the Black Company don’t ask questions, they get paid. But being “The Lady’s favored” is attracting the wrong kind of attention and has put a target on their backs--and the Company’s historian, Croaker, has the biggest target of all.
The one person who was taken into The Lady’s Tower and returned unchanged has earned the special interest of the court of sorcerers known as The Ten Who Were Taken. Now, he and the company are being asked to seek the aid of their newest member, Mischievous Rain, to break a rebel army. However, Croaker doesn’t trust any of the Taken, especially not ones that look so much like The Lady and her sister…
The Chronicles of the Black Company
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After more than 17 years, Cook returns with a murky and ephemeral addition to his Chronicles of the Black Company grimdark fantasy series. Chronicler Croaker and the rest of the mercenary band are in service to a mysterious and powerful sorceress known as the Lady, but as they get comfortably dug in at their new posting, begin to realize that things are a little too quiet. They're sent to capture a supposed rebel leader who turns out to be an innocent-seeming young woman, and things begin to get strange. Small acts of sabotage crop up in the camp, doubles of the young woman begin to appear, and someone or something is affecting the memories of the Company. Cook's convoluted style is in full flower, and between the forgetting and the fact that Croaker is often kept in the dark, the plot can be somewhat hard to follow. With no lasting impact on the Company or their over-arching story, this makes for a pleasant diversion for fans of the series.
Customer Reviews
Not for the casual Cook reader
If you love Glen Cook for what truly makes his style immersive and visceral, this is a tour de force. If you’re just looking for the equally satisfying, if somewhat less fulfilling, fantasy fodder...look elsewhere.
Poor showing
Worst entry into the series. Phoned in and utterly boring.
A half-hearted entry
There’s not much of the Black Company in this book. All the characters undergo major personality shifts that are waved away at the end. Plot and continuity holes abound. This ranks as the least enjoyable, least interesting and least important entry in the series.