Waiting on Wednesday is a meme I’ve participated in for years which lets readers share their excitement for books coming out soon, and this week the story I’m eagerly awaiting is . . .
Genre: Fantasy – Grimdark
Series: Chronicles of the Black Company #1.5
Publisher: Tor Books (September 11, 2018)
Length: 400 pages
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…
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Well, I hope he does better with this book than he did with the final Dread Empire book.
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True. He certainly tried to wrap up too many plot threads in that final book.
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I was thinking more of the Pedophile wizard myself.
Or are you talking about the book of short stories about the Dread Empire?
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Pedo wizard and companions.
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I like this cover
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It’s a good one.
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