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A Shadow of All Night Falling

di Glen Cook

Serie: Dread Empire (1)

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Before there was Black Company, there was the Dread Empire, an omnibus collection the first three Dread Empire novels: A Shadow of All Night's Falling, October's Baby and All Darkness Met. For the first time in eBook format, the A Cruel Wind collection is available as individual books.
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There's a part of this book, about half way through, that I was absolutely bored by, but I love both the start and the ending. Lucky for me, Cook doesn't fall into the same trap so many other fantasy writers do re:length, so it didn't take too long to get past the part I didn't like. Not as gripping as his Black Company books, but I'm excited enough to read the next book in the series.
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  Fardo | Oct 15, 2019 |
I persevered, waiting for the Cook magic to happen; nothing. I didn't care about the characters who appeared thin and ill formed.
Perhaps The Chronicles of the Black Company had raised unrealistic expectations. ( )
  Robert3167 | Mar 4, 2019 |
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Title: A Shadow of All Night Falling
Series: The Dread Empire: A Cruel Wind #1
Author: Glen Cook
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 256
Format: Digital Edition


Synopsis:

A young boy watches as his mother is burned as a witch. In consequence, he eventually goes to the Dread Empire and learns all he can of magic. Upon his return, he destroys all the sorcerers and breaks the Kingdom.

Looking into the future, he sees that the fate of the world will revolve around him and a woman. He spends hundreds of years in preparation. Said woman falls in love and marries another man. Her sorcerous brothers get involved, as does another immortal man and some armies. Varth will do whatever he has to to get the woman on his side to save the world.

But Varth's powers came at a cost. The Dread Empire has waited for hundreds of years for Varth to be the perfect unknowing pawn and today, the cost of his education comes due.

My Thoughts: Spoilers

First off, there is a character who is named The Mocker. He starts out fat and silly and talks in the 3rd person. I would say that Steven Erikson pretty much lifted this character wholesale to create his character of Krup, the spy master of Darujistahn in his Malazan Book of the Fallen series.

You alse see a lot of pre-Black Company ideas being formed here. I haven't read enough other Cook to tell if he trots out certain ideas in every book/series or if this is just a “fantasy” thing for him. Either way, this reads like Black Company, the Rough Draft.

It's a fun story and I thoroughly enjoyed my time. Also a good book to shove into peoples' faces if they ever start talking about fates, predestination, and how things are out of their control.

Thankfully, this ends much like most of the Black Company books. So it's your call if that's happy or not. I was satisfied with how things turned out.

★★★☆ ½ ( )
1 vota BookstoogeLT | Mar 24, 2017 |
You can see hints of what makes Cook an author whom I consistently enjoy, but this one doesn't particularly deliver the goods. Both the world and the characters offer glimpses of something fascinating and compelling and pretty darn bleak. But we only get to know them at a superficial level, and in the end I couldn't find myself particularly caring what happened to any of them. ( )
  clong | Mar 12, 2017 |
Earlier Glen Cook, but still delivers on his trademark gritty genre action. The writing isn't quite up to the level of his later works, and Cook's repertoire of characters is limited, but he grasps those characters' fundamental psychology and communicates it in spare, workman-line prose. I suspected half of the final twist, but was definitely pleasantly surprised by how the last few chapters unfolded. Worth reading for Cook fans. ( )
  llasram | Nov 9, 2010 |
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Before there was Black Company, there was the Dread Empire, an omnibus collection the first three Dread Empire novels: A Shadow of All Night's Falling, October's Baby and All Darkness Met. For the first time in eBook format, the A Cruel Wind collection is available as individual books.

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