Water Sleeps

Chronicles of the Black Company, Book 8

By: Glen Cook

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

For years, Glen Cook's Black Company series has built a major audience among fantasy fans. Told from the "worm's-eye" view of the soldiers and functionaries who fight in the trenches of vast sorceress wars, this epic has riveted a generation of readers. If the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings, it might read like the Black Company books. There is nothing else in fantasy like them. Now Cook brings the latest cycle of the Black Company saga to a major climax, as the survivors of the disaster at the end of She is Darkness regroup in Taglios. Determined to free their fellow warriors held in stasis beneath the glittering plain, they journey there under terrible conditions, arriving just in time for a magical conflagration in which the bones of the world will be revealed, the history of the Company unveiled, and new worlds gained and lost...all at a major price. Wry, tough-minded, brilliantly imagined, and told with enormous flair, Water Sleeps is Glen Cook at the top of his game.

Listen to more in the Black Company series.©1999 Glen Cook (P)2010 Audible, Inc.

good book

i really enjoyed sleepy as the point of view a lot. However. get prepared for death.

the company soldiers on . may be largely gone but not defeated. the path is to the plane.

Cook thrills—yay! Andrews underwhelms—ugh!

Macleod Andrews is worst reader of the series—he makes a lot of errors that took me out of the story by way of awkward breaks, dry mouth, ambient sounds, and mispronunciations. Also haven’t been a fan of the accent work since Mark Vietor was replaced. Andrews simply cannot distinguish characters without an absurd accent, and his preponderance of Indian-style accents seems uncomfortably exaggerated and even vaguely racist at times. Vietor’s Soul Catcher is so much more vivid and alive than Andrew’s Protector—it’s painful at times. Same goes for the ongoing Scottish brogue of One-Eye—previous narrator’s misstep that stays & remains the most nonsensical artist choice of the series. Still this is the best story of the Glittering Stone series so far, so the quality of the narrative overcomes the shortcomings of the narrator. Easily the best story since Shadows Linger, and a much more deft handling of a woman-centered fantasy narrative than Dreams of Steel. I only wish Rachel Butera or someone with her abilities had been brought back for this one.

Best one!

Out of all the books I have listened to this was the best one. The story and the narrator were great.

4/5

Narrator was excellent with voices but there were noticable audio issues that need fixing .

All evil dies there an endless death

The whole series is wonderful I listen to them at work often, hoping he gets to finish book 11