Tag Archives: The Black Company

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY: SUMMER READS

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Bookwraiths

Today, the guys in the Goodreads Top 5 Wednesday group had a great topic: Summer Reads. This can include beach reads, fun reads, or any book you associate with summer for whatever reason! And since my idea of summer fun is sitting … Continue reading →

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY: Characters You Are Most Like

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Bookwraiths

Today, the guys in the Goodreads Top 5 Wednesday group had a great topic: Characters You Are Most Like. The only catch that you have to be honest and choose characters you are like, not characters you WANT to be like. You can also … Continue reading →

Posted in Top Five Wednesday | Tagged A Game of Thrones, Aragorn, Characters you are most like, Croaker, Eddard Stark, Falcio, fantasy characters you are most like, Promsie of Blood, Saint's Blood, Taniel Two-Shot, The Black Company, The Lord of the Rings, Top 5 Wednesday | 5 Comments

TOP TEN TUESDAY

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Bookwraiths

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday! This is a weekly feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, where a new top ten list hits the web every week! This week our topic is … TOP TEN CHARACTERS I SHOULDN’T LIKE … Continue reading →

Posted in Top Ten Tuesday | Tagged Darth Vader, Glokta, Joe Abercrombie, Loki, Malekith, Mark Lawrence, Peter V. Brett, Soulcatcher, Star Wars, The Black Company, the broken empire, the first law, THE WARDED MAN, thomas covenant, Top Ten Tuesday | 8 Comments

TOUGH TRAVELING — LABORERS

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Bookwraiths

Every Thursday, Nathan over at Fantasy Review Barn hosts a weekly party where blogs set out with Diana Wynne Jones’ hilarious book The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: The Essential Guide to Fantasy Travel in hand to explore all the tropes … Continue reading →

Posted in Tough Traveling | Tagged Alexey Pehov, Charles E Yallowitz, Glen Cook, indie fantasy series, JEFF SALYARDS, Jon Sprunk, laborers in fantasy, Peter V. Brett, The Black Company, The Book of the Black Earth, Tough Traveling, Tough Traveling Thursday | 10 Comments

TOUGH TRAVELING — MIDDLE AGED HEROES

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Bookwraiths

Posted in Fantasy, Lists | Tagged Croaker, Eddard Stark, Game of Thrones, middle aged heroes, middle aged heroes in fantasy, Roland Deschain, The Black Company, the dark tower, Tough Traveling, Tough Traveling Thursday | 15 Comments

TOUGH TRAVELING — AWESOME DISPLAYS OF MAGIC

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Bookwraiths

Posted in Fantasy, Lists, Tough Traveling | Tagged best magical battles, Brandon Sanderson, Chronicles of the Deryni, Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Darkwar, Deryni Rising, Glen Cook, Jon Sprunk, Katherine Kurtz, Louise Cooper, MISTBORN, most awesome magical displays, Storm and Steel, The Black Company, thomas covenant, Time Master, Tough Traveling | 15 Comments

FLASHBACK FRIDAY — DARKWAR by GLEN COOK

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Bookwraiths

As most of my friends know, I am a Glen Cook fan, have been since I was a teenager in the 1980s and read The Black Company. That quintessential grimdark fantasy (before there was even the term) blew my mind, … Continue reading →

Posted in 4 Stars, Cross-Genre, Fantasy, Flashback Friday, High, Science Fiction | Tagged 80s fantasy, Darkwar, fantasy scifi genre benders, Flashback Friday, Glen Cook, overlooked 80s fantasy books, scifi fantasy novels, The Black Company, underappreciated fantasy books, underappreciated fantasy novels | 2 Comments

TOUGH TRAVELING — ENFORCERS

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Bookwraiths

Posted in Lists, Tough Traveling | Tagged best fantasy characters, best fantasy lists, best fantasy novels, christopher paolini, Darth Vader, durza, enforcers, eragon, Glen Cook, inheritance cycle, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, luke castellan, nazgul, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, percy jackspn, Rick Riordan, sith lords, Star Wars, The Black Company, the ten who were taken, the witch-king of angmar, Tough Traveling | 11 Comments

SHATTERED SHIELDS edited by JENNIFER BROZEK and BRYAN THOMAS SCHMIDT

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Bookwraiths

My rating is 3 out of 5 stars. Shattered Shields edited by Brozek and Schmidt is an anthology focused on military fantasy, specifically heroic struggles and epic combat. Here seventeen short stories and novellas explore the vast expanse of military … Continue reading →

Posted in 3 Stars, Anthology, Fantasy, Short Stories | Tagged best military fantasy anthology, best military fantasy stories, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, David Farland, ELIZABETH MOON, Glen Cook, Jennifer Brozek, military fantasy, Paksenarrion, Runelords, Shattered Shields, The Black Company | 2 Comments

TOUGH TRAVELING — MONSTERS

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Bookwraiths

Every Thursday, Nathan over at Fantasy Review Barn hosts a weekly party where blogs get to follow along with Diana Wynne Jones’ hilarious book The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: The Essential Guide to Fantasy Travel listing their favorite books with … Continue reading →