Presenting Author-Glen Cook

[Arianna Stonewater]

Name of the author: Glen Cook
Main genre: Sci-fi/Fantasy
Main audience: young adult+
main books: Garrett P.I. series and Black Company
Short summary of the author: Glen Cook has an incredible ability to capture human essence. I first read his Black Company series and fell in love with, which continued into reading his Instrumentalities of the Night series, and now i'm starting the Garrett P.I. series (I've always loved Jim Butcher's Dresden Files and am told this is very similar).
Good points / bad points: In most of his series, its not written as Good Vs. Evil, but rather Us Vs. Them. Each part of every book, the writing style is different depending on who the "author" of that section is. His writing style is so diverse that he can write as if he is different people within the same book and it still flows coherently. Some of the parts can get really graphic, but his presentation of human life is so fantastic, there really are no throw-away characters. Everyone is connecting and that small part in chapter one comes back fifteen chapters later. I highly recommend reading anything of his.