Water Sleeps
8.08.0 / 10
Score out of 1076 ratingsConfidence 34%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
- 464
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
Part of a seriesThe Black CompanyVolume 8 of 20
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About the book
Water Sleeps is the eighth 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.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 76 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 34% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.3 | 8 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 7.9 | 68 | 90% |
Frequently asked
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It has 464 pages — shorter than 62% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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