[Salt-Man Z]

Over on Tor.com: https://www.tor.com/...-black-company/

Also includes a brief excerpt. Due out in September!

Spoiler

[Vengeance]

Wait so this is a new book before White Rose?

[Salt-Man Z]

Yeah, it's sometime during the original trilogy, not sure if it's been more precisely stated previously. I also can't help but wonder if this will be the first part of a duology, given Cook's other long-forthcoming BC book is called "A Pitiless Rain" and here we have a new Taken named "Mischievous Rain".

[QuickTidal]

This just makes me realize that I need to catch up on this series...I'm only on like book 4 I think?

[Abyss]

I bailed with WATER SLEEPS, but a prequel set during the time I enjoyed reading might be tempting.

[Puck]

Oooh, I love anything and everything BC! And love the cover, but I'm a sucker for anything Swanland touches with a brush.

[Macros]

What an awesome cover

[Limper]

Got it today, maybe half through. This is set between Black Company and Shadows Linger. So nice to read a new novel with Croaker, One Eye, Goblin, Silent, Elmo, Otto, etc.

The Lady is in charge in Charm, the Dominator is restless in the Barrowland, Resurrectionists want to free him via a sorcerous ritual, and the Lady is using BC to stop this, along with semi-loyal help from Limper and Whisper and a fresh new Taken.

I'd call this as good as the first three novels so far. There are some nice flashback stories involving Senjaks and the Domination. A worthwhile read for BC fans.

[Macros]

Off too Amazon I go it seems

[Macros]

£20, fuck that!

Waiting for PB

[amphibian]

 Macros, on 12 September 2018 - 09:15 AM, said:

£20, fuck that!

Waiting for PB

The story had to age like good spirits, that's why it's expensive.

[Abyss]

 Limper, on 12 September 2018 - 06:22 AM, said:

Got it today, maybe half through. This is set between Black Company and Shadows Linger. So nice to read a new novel with Croaker, One Eye, Goblin, Silent, Elmo, Otto, etc....
I'd call this as good as the first three novels so far...

Every time i think i'm out, they pull me back in.

[T77]

Just finished my reread of BC1 - so good! It aged very well. My Audible preorder dropped yesterday, will start today.

[Limper]

Let's see if Kindle PC can copy much text (low-spoilage samples ahead)...

Spoiler

"All that jerky motion caused the contents of the tube under Limper's carpet to slosh and mix. An especially violent jig finally shook a jammed trigger loose. The explosion shredded the fore half of the carpet. The Limper was in a shrieking steep climb at the time, twenty-three hundred feet high. He arced one way. A barrel followed. Bits of carpet and frame, aflame and otherwise, scattered and began to flutter down. The Taken called on his sorcery, then cursed all the way to the ground. The damned Black Company had done him wrong again. They had smelled him coming, somehow. Maybe Whisper had betrayed him. Whatever, they most certainly still owned the damning rescript that, till the explosion, he had thought that he had recovered. He was not going to be able to cover this up. He had a long walk ahead, through the worst the Plain of Fear had to offer. He was going to be late for work."

Cook, Glen. Port of Shadows: A Chronicle of the Black Company (Chronicles of The Black Company) (Kindle Locations 1240-1247). Tom Doherty Associates. Kindle Edition.

Spoiler

"Sorcerers, sorceresses, and the Taken in particular, love to mess with you that way, by being vague, opaque, completely ambiguous. Always for your own good, of course, so you will commence to begin to think about considering engaging in critical thinking yourself."

Cook, Glen. Port of Shadows: A Chronicle of the Black Company (Chronicles of The Black Company) (Kindle Locations 2205-2206). Tom Doherty Associates. Kindle Edition.

[Dragnipurake]

Loved the book. Was very happy to find this is not a continuation from soldiers live or water sleeps (whichever is the last) but within the main 3 books.

Would be great if “a pitiless rain” is also set within the storyline of the first three books. Croaker does reminisce about his happy childhood till “the shit started its pitiless rain”.

Spoilers:

So, everyone but croaker/BC knows who mischievous rain truly is? The confusion and memory loss is meant to hid the names but silent remembers?

This post has been edited by Dragnipurake: 07 October 2018 - 11:23 PM

[T77]

I liked it, but thought that the middle section was a bit weak and it was not as good as the latest Instrumentalities books.

[Tavvar]

Sorry for the well delayed post, but I just finished Port of Shadows (read from Shadows Linger (started Feb) through Soldiers Live (finished May). I also think the middle was on the weaker side, mostly because it was quite confusing. I liked the end, despite the continuing confusion. The only thing I've found to make any sense of it was a theory on Reddit that this is Croaker, Lady, and maybe other projecting back in time, thus the loss of memory was meant to not mess up the timeline. Not that that sounds much less confusing. Still, it was a fun book!

[Macros]

Thinking of buying now (with a new bookshelf impending, be rude not to have a stock ready for it)

Also thinking of a BC reread.
Would it slot in well as a new read, mid reread chronologically?

[Macros]

Still £17, paperback the same and nothing pre owned.

Fuck that