[@Fiscbryne] Honestly my criticisms are marginal. My initial complaint was that Glen Cook wrote in a minimalist style I wasn't used to, but something to note is that the entirety of the Black Company is written in-universe by the Company's Annalist and Physician named 'Croaker' so it reads more like a diary or a memoir (though it's still very much a novel series). Also, as you might expect, characters who get a lot of screen time just sometimes die out of the blue, which makes sense since they're fighting a war. All in all, while I would enjoy a tad more description for various things in the prose, it's a great story so far. Highly recommend!