Bleak Seasons
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2.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Delve into a Fantasy Land Dominated by Dark Forces
Embark on an exhilarating journey penned by the master of epic fantasy, Glen Cook, author of the acclaimed Bleak Seasons. Experience the world through the eyes of Murgen, a seasoned warrior and standard bearer of the Black Company, a band of mercenaries trapped in a relentless struggle against the primal forces of darkness known as the Shadowlanders.
Epic battles, ancient inscrutable gods, and intricate plots dominate this landscape of dark fantasy. You're thrust into the tumultuous period following the perilous siege of Stormgard, where the embattled and outnumbered Black Company has won a fleeting victory against the malevolent entities.
The company's survival hangs in the balance, caught between sorcery, treachery, and the machinations of their mad commander, interconnected forces that threaten to shatter the world as they know it.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The ragged but effective group of sorcerers and soldiers known as "the Black Company" (Dreams of Steel, 1990, etc.) return in their sixth book, the first of a new trilogy. The members of the Black Company fight for hire as mercenaries, but also uphold a centuries-old tradition that includes solidarity and keeping a chronicle called "the Annals." Murgen, Standardbearer and current keeper of the Annals, narrates this story, with visions back and forth in time, often involuntary. Cook provides a rich world of assorted races, cultures and religions; his characters combine the mythic or exotic with the realistic, engaging in absorbing alliances, enmities and double-crosses. Unfortunately, all his good work is undercut somewhat by narrative dependence on the earlier books-which, after six years, most readers may not recall-and by a cliffhanger ending that won't be resolved until future books.
