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The Black Company is a military fantasy novel filled with unlikable characters and strange worldbuilding. The book manages to make these things part of its identity, but unfortunately fails to develop most of its characters and to make some parts of the story engaging.
The Black Company is a private military group. When the story starts, it’s hired to contain riots in the city of Beryl, but soon the situation in the city starts to escalate rapidly and get out of control, leading them to make a complicated decision: if they want to stay alive, they must toss honor into the fire and betray their employer. The betrayal, however, doesn’t improve their situation by much since they [...]