Shadow Games - Review
Link to the author's (G. Cook) personal website
Genre: Fantasy
Publication Type: Book
Tags:
- Average Age of Main Characters (34)
- Length (5 / 10)
Series: The Black Company
Link to Goodreads
Blurb: After the devastating battle at the Tower of Charm, Croaker leads the greatly diminished Black Company south, in search of the lost Annals. The Annals will be returned to Khatovar, eight thousand miles away, a city that may exists only in legend...the origin of the first Free Companies.
Every step of the way the Company is hounded by shadowy figured and carrion-eating crows. As they march every southward, through bug infested jungle, rivers dense with bloodthirsty pirates, and cities, dead and living, haunted by the passage of the Company north, their numbers grow until they are thousands strong.
But always they are watched--by the Shadowmasters--a deadly new enemy: twisted creature that deal in darkness and death: powerful, shadowy creatures bent on smothering the world in their foul embrace. This is the first round in a deadly game, a game that the Black Company cannot hope to win.
Review: Please go see my review for the series as a whole! Spoiler Alert: Dark gritty decent fantasy. See the series review here.