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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Furtive Noise" data-source="post: 1463542" data-attributes="member: 273">I just finished reading the Silver Spike recently, though the Black Company aren't featured in it a lot of characters and loose ends from the first three books are and its definitely worth reading.    I read through the first book a while back and really couldn't get into it, the writing style annoyed me greatly.  Reading it about a year later I sort of 'got it' more, for lack of a better phrase.  The characters grow on you, and the gritty, grim world was nice.  I found them a nice relaxing change of pace after reading a more literary 'difficult' novel.  I kind of agree with those who disliked the Plain of Fear.  Its not that it wasn't a neat concept, and I liked the talking menhirs, but that it sort of felt like a crutch the good characters started to have to rely on so much.  Less military and more 'well, the white rose is horribly outnumbered and the black company's decimated, but here's a nigh-unstoppable monster army she can use to get almost anywhere in the world real quickly with.'  Though perhaps thats not a fair criticism.  Bleh, lost the thread of why I posted, I really did enjoy the books despite having weird mixed feelings of some aspects of them.     Has anyone else found some of these books really hard to find?  There was a large gap for me between reading the first two and the third & Silver Spike.  I suppose I could order them if I really wanted to, but just finding them in stores can be difficult.</blockquote>

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