/lit/ - Literature

The Black Company:

Is it just me or The Books Of The South (aka book 4 & 5) a really boring drag?

I've just finished the part where the remains of the company and their newly recruited rice fucker armies arrive at the first shadow wizard castle and holy fuck, had I to force myself through every page.

From the beginning it was clear that the Black Company series would have a slower pace then David Gemell's or even Joe Abercrombie's books, but sometimes there is just TOO MUCH pointless inner monologue from Croaker.
Does it pack up the pace once the (Spoiler warning!)narrator changes in the later books?


PS: I can't fucking stand the jungle setting for some reason, it feels like Cook tried too hard to put the vietnam-feel into a fantasy setting.