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[Title] Dreams of Steel (The Chronicle of the Black Company, #5) [Author] Glen Cook [Rating] ★★★★ [Year] 1990 [Read] 2013/06/12 [Review] 
A major improvement over the previous two books and equal to the original The Black Company & Shadows Linger: we turn to the Lady’s perspective as she fights her way back from a debacle in the invasion of the Shadowlands, builds up an army, and imposes her own manipulative rule and empire-building tactics, heavily leavened by plotting by all parties. Pluses included no more Taken popping up, we saw very little of Goblin or One-eye, and soap-operatic twist at the end aside, the overall plot has built up nicely.
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