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Book Review of The Black Company (The Chronicle of the Black Company, Bk 1)

The Black Company (The Chronicle of the Black Company, Bk 1)
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Helpful Score: 3


Fast-reading adventure story. Narrator has a laconic, soldierly way of telling the story. Sometimes I really liked this understated manner, but it often made it difficult for me to connect with the characters, which were fairly one-dimensional. The Black Company runs through a lot of adventures, but it is clearly the build-up to the story told in subsequent books. I enjoyed it while it was reading it, but ended up feeling dissatisfied and uninterested in seeing what happens to the characters.