I tried forcing myself to love this, however my rating on the book kept getting lower & lower until it reach a 'no star' rating, that's when I threw in the towel. I'm sorry I truly tried, however I just didn't care about anything & the writing *shudders*.

I, However, can safely say I was wrong and that I absolutely loathed reading this. I'm actually really sad about this DNF, I wanted to love this book and before I even read it, I knew it was going to be a four or five star read because of the reviews on it & that blurb sounds goddamn amazing. 'This book is utter pus' - a quote by Lady Luna hater of all things shit. His latest work is Working God’s Mischief, fourth in the Instrumentalities of the Night series.

His other series include Dread Empire and and the Garrett, P.I. He is best known for his Black Company series, which has appeared in 20+ languages worldwide. He has three sons (army officer, architect, orchestral musician) and numerous grandchildren, all of whom but one are female. He met his wife of 43 years while attending the Clarion Writer's Workshop in 1970. He began writing with malicious intent to publish in 1968, eventually producing 51 books and a number of short fiction pieces.

He started writing short stories in 7th grade, had several published in a high school literary magazine. He worked for General Motors for 33 years, retiring some years ago.

Navy and attended the University of Missouri. However, Croaker doesn’t trust any of the Taken, especially not ones that look so much like The Lady and her sister…Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Glen Cook was born in New York City, lived in southern Indiana as a small child, then grew up in Northern California. Now, he and the company are being asked to seek the aid of their newest member, Mischievous Rain, to break a rebel army. The one person who was taken into The Lady’s Tower and returned unchanged has earned the special interest of the court of sorcerers known as The Ten Who Were Taken. But being “The Lady’s favored” is attracting the wrong kind of attention and has put a target on their backs-and the Company’s historian, Croaker, has the biggest target of all. The soldiers of the Black Company don’t ask questions, they get paid. Glen Cook, the father of Grimdark, returns to the Chronicles of the Black Company with a military fantasy adventure in Port of Shadows.

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