Perhaps if Cook had written a giant, sprawling work, like one of today’s thousand-page tomes, he could have made it come together better. There’re lots of very cool bits of business, but The Silver Spike feels like several books jammed together rather inelegantly. Another storyline follows a new set of characters as they commit an act of great stupidity that leads to many deaths and horrendous destruction.
Over here, several characters are chasing down a revived enemy only to be suddenly yanked away to face a different threat. It covers a lot of ground, constantly bouncing between several narratives and the better part of two continents. Concerned as much with giving ends to a host of characters as he is with the aftermath of the rebellion, Cook doesn’t tell a totally cohesive story. Published four years after The White Rose, The Silver Spike (1989) is a sort of odd book that attempts to tie up several loose ends. Raven, also in love with Darling, stayed behind too, but rejected, went off with Case, the young imperial soldier he’d befriended.
The wizard Silent, in love with with Darling, chose to remain with her despite her not having reciprocal feelings. The group - five veterans, the empire’s erstwhile ruler the Lady, and Croaker in the lead - decided to travel south and find Khatovar, the fabled home city of the Black Company.ĭarling, otherwise known as the rebel leader the White Rose, chose to remain in the North rather than accompany Croaker and the rest of her friends. The end of the third book, The White Rose, saw the storied mercenary company whittled down to a handful of survivors.
Until the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more.And so we come to end of the line for several of the main characters of the Black Company trilogy. The hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. There are plenty of places to begin (though we recommend book #1 or the upcoming Port of Shadows as entry points), but we’ve made it easy for you with the official chronological order!ĭiscover the original grimdark fantasy series with the dark and epic tale of the mercenary group The Black Company. It might seem hard to know where to get started. A genre-defining series like The Chronicles of the Black Company can be intimidating.
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