Shadow Games
- 320
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Shadow Games” takes “The Black Company” into its fourth volume with a crowd of new faces and a plot that holds its revelations back. Some readers find it hard to follow as it switches between viewpoints and adds characters quickly. Others feel the pace is lopsided, with a long quiet stretch and everything packed into the last chapters, and miss the twists of the earlier books.
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About the book
Shadow Games is the fourth novel in Glen Cook's ongoing series, The Black Company. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred-year history.
Reading order · The Black Company
Full order & progress →- The Black CompanyStart here
–Not ranked yet - Shadows Linger
8.18.1 / 10 - Cranky BitchCranky Bitch–Not ranked yet
- Leta of the Thousand SorrowsLeta of the Thousand Sorrows–Not ranked yet
- Wet Dream Fish StoryWet Dream Fish Story–Not ranked yet
- Those Who Went BeforeThose Who Went Before–Not ranked yet
- Shaggy Dog BridgeShaggy Dog Bridge–Not ranked yet
- Bone EatersBone Eaters–Not ranked yet
- Chasing MidnightChasing Midnight–Not ranked yet
- The White Rose
8.18.1 / 10 - The Silver Spike
7.87.8 / 10 - Shadow GamesThis book
7.97.9 / 10 - Dreams of Steel
8.08.0 / 10 - Bleak Seasons
7.87.8 / 10 - She Is the Darkness
7.97.9 / 10 - Water Sleeps
8.08.0 / 10 - Soldiers Live
8.08.0 / 10 - Port of Shadows
–Not ranked yet - Lies Weeping
–Not ranked yet - They CryThey Cry–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 133 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 48% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.6 | 16 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 7.9 | 117 | 88% |
Frequently asked
How long is Shadow Games?
It has 320 pages — shorter than 92% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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