The Books of the South

Tales of the Black Company

Paperback, 672 pages

English language

Published June 10, 2008 by Tor Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-2066-7
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Marching south after the ghastly battle at the Tower of Charm, the Black Company is hounded by shadowy figures every inch of the way.

The game is on: the Company versus the Shadowmasters, deadly creatures that deal in darkness and sorrow.

When hope dies, there's still survival. And there's still the Black Company.

The Book of the South is the second omnibus of novels from one of the greatest fantasy epics of our age, Glen Cook's Black Company series—collecting Shadow Games, Dreams of Steel, and The Silver Spike.

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Thus begins the overlong tale of the Black Company's search for their origins as the "last of the Free Companies of Khatovar."

This collection follows up where the first trilogy (collected in Chronicles of the Black Company) leaves off. Twice actually, as the first two books cover the Black Company itself, while the third deals with what happened back North after they left.

As I write this I realize that I actually enjoyed the books in this collection nearly as much as the original, it's just that they lead to a conclusion that never actually seems to happen.

They also set up some new themes for the series which later proved to be annoying: namely the constant return of the same threats, over and over, no matter how well they seem to have been dealt with in their previous appearance. I suppose there's something here to be said about the …

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