From: robertaw@drizzle.com   
      
   This is the first book in a new sub-series of his Black Company series   
   (will he live long enough to finish it?). It takes place shortly after   
   the events of _Soldiers Live_, the 4th title of the Glittering Stone   
   sub-series. There are two basic threads. The first is focused on the   
   Black Company which had moved back to the camp/city it had resided in at   
   the start of _Soldiers Live_. This is recorded by the diary entries of   
   Akrana and Shukrat Voroshk (two teenage girls that the Black Company had   
   acquired from another world during _Soldiers Live_). Being cousins and   
   teenagers, the entries contain a significant amount of sniping at each   
   other.   
      
   The other thread is the musings of Shivetya New (as he refers to himself   
   - at the end of _Soldiers Live_, Croaker and Shivetya changed bodies,   
   thus Croaker is now an immortal with near-divine power and Shivetya is   
   an old man). Why did Shivetya do this? It appears that he had plans, but   
   did he survive Shukrat going all Warthog on him on the last page?   
      
   As for the Black Company thread, people are plotting against the Black   
   Company, but the only significant attacks were blocked. The Lady returns   
   to her home world to the site where the two plot threads of _Port of   
   Shadows_ merged. We have to wait for another book to find out what she   
   is up to.   
      
   Shievtya New does a deep dive into the timeline of the Domination,   
   discovering much of the events of the Domination thread of _Port of   
   Shadows_. BTW, I wonder if somebody has forgotten the reveal of the   
   Lady¹s true name in chapter 58 of _The White Rose_; I hope it wasn¹t   
   Glen Cook.   
      
   --   
   "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."   
   Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.   
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   Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)