Port of Shadows

A Novel of the Black Company

By: Glen Cook

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

Port of Shadows is the newest dark fantasy audiobook in Glen Cook's esteemed Chronicles of the Black Company series.

The father of Grimdark returns…

The soldiers of the Black Company don’t ask questions, they get paid. 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 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. Now, he and the company are being asked to seek the aid of their newest member, Mischievous Rain, to break a rebel army. However, Croaker doesn’t trust any of the Taken, especially not ones that look so much like The Lady and her sister…

The Chronicles of the Black Company
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©2018 Glen Cook (P)2018 Macmillan Audio

don’t read if creepy old men scare you.

I’ve been binging the black company sense before christmas. it seems like glen cook is living vicariously through his male characters. he probably got his idea for mischievous rain from a cartoonishly inaccurate halloween costume the japanese kimono ones. but dang son I love the loyalty that the company has for each other, metal gear solid made me love narratives about private militaries.

excellent recording

This is a wonderful story and it is beautifully well recorded. The events described can seem somewhat disjoint from the rest of The Black Company story arc, but it all maked sense in the end.

wow

I did not think the Black Company could make me cry. but it did!

No disrespect but I personally prefer Marc Vietor

I'm just here to piss and moan about the narrator. Ostensibly the reason Marc was not casted for this project was because of the change in publishing- Audible V. Macmillan. The new narrator gives the story a feeling of Black Company fanfiction. I started following the Black Company after book three of the Malazan series when they replaced Ralph Lister with Michael Paige and this juxtaposition is just as jarring. Paige is phenomenal in the Lies of Locke Lamora, as I'm sure Troxell is in other series, but this ain't it chief.

Nice to be back with the company.

It was a good story with many members of the old company that were missed in later books. The captain, elmo and the lieutenant to name a few. the only complaint was story was a bit difficult to follow as there were so many characters and branches at the end. half way through thebold company seemed to disappear and it was Croaker love story.

Nice short story

It’s exactly what you expect of the black company. This has always been one of my favorite audio books and remains so. I was really happy just to get another story after so long

Like the Story but not the same

While Mr.Troxell does a good job of telling the story, it is not the same without Mark Vietor as the voice of the main character, Croaker. I have enjoyed the series over several years in both written and audio format and I find the change in voice actor detracts form my enjoyment of the story.

This is an add on book. Doesn’t follow timeline

This book does not follow the timeline of the black company. Apparently, it was written many years later. It is unnecessary. The story is rambling and some of it doesn’t make sense. You can skip this one.

Another Great Story

The Black Company books were all wonderful and this is a great addition to the series. It was just as grityy, funny and magical as the original series. The voice actor was fun and the story complex.


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Shoehorned

I love the black company books, and I enjoyed this book as well. The only reason I don't give it five stars is that it does suffer from the mechanisms that allow the author to squeeze a story back into a timeline that's already been established. As example, characters we've never heard of before and never will again. Although, it would be nice if they would work their way into potential future novels. At least it wasn't all a dream.