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This is a weirdly dense, weirdly structured book. Well… I didn’t actually miss as much as I thought I had the first time through. So I reread The Black Company for the first time in– oh god, I’m old–35 years. No peasant boy learning he was the chosen king here. It took fantasy off its courtly throne and threw the story down into the mud. I expected to get more from this reread simply because the series is so significant in the field-it’s been ongoing since the 80s! That doesn’t happen without a strong audience. We’re not looking at the chessboard we are the chess pieces.Ģ) The magic is peculiar and interesting and very dangerous. It was in the trenches warfare, not big picture warfare this was the story for the merc soldiers and the rebels, not the generals. My expectations going into the first of the series, based on my recall, were thus:ġ) This is a book about war. I’m rereading them for two reasons: to see what I missed the first time around, and frankly to see if I want to keep carting them around for years to come. Why I Chose It: So my 2019 Resolution was to revisit Glen Cook’s series The Chronicles of the Black Company, beginning with… well, The Black Company.Īs mentioned, I remember these books only vaguely, but they made enough of an impression on me that I’ve been carting six of them around for decades now. Series: Book 1 of The Chronicles of the Black Company