The book was breathtaking. It made me revisit the legends of our time and look at them as real persons. Steven Ericson still manages to write morose, sombre, and dismal tone that would almost make you want to cry and curl up on the floor at the meaninglessness of life. Steven Ericson is not Fishe...
3.5, really. I didn't like this as much as the rest of the Malazan series, although it was fun to read. We were not given any insights into the title characters (B and KB) since the stories really focused on other people who were affected by B and KB. We learn a little about the manservant, but n...
Why are these books so hard to review? I had heard that this one was bleak, dark, depressing and slow. Well, it was certainly slow. At least the first half was, where even the Malazan army was twiddling their thumbs in Letheras (although there were a few great and/or funny scenes). The other ...
I finally made it to the end! Well, other than the two ICE books I have yet to read.I think I need to call a little BS on this being the second part of a two-part novel, as this has the same long, slower beginning that every Malazan book does. Other than the massive cliffhanger at the end of Dus...
Canterbury Tales meets cannibalism meets rampant sexual humor. Yup. This series of books is interesting, because Bauchelain and Broach never feel like they fit in the Malazan world. However, this book which has really nothing to do with Bauchelain and Broach, feels much more in the style of th...
I was recently scrolling through the Tor website looking for something new to read when I stumbled upon the word, ‘grimlark’. I was so taken by the word that I actually didn’t notice what book it was describing because it was the perfect descriptive word for the book I was reading at the time, Th...
UPDATE: I've just reread this book so I've updated my review, which you can find at the end of my little lovenote here. :)Why Read The Malazan Book of the Fallen, or A Love Note to Steven Erikson (Okay, not really the latter)If you've even attempted to read Gardens of the Moon, the first book in ...
‘Rolling among the flopping limbs so cadaverous and cold, our heat of passion a thing stolen by insensate flesh, to be wasted in the manner of the sun’s heat on a stone?’ The Thel Akai raised her ample arms. ‘The day’s death is but prelude, Hanako of the Scars, a reminder repeated all too often –...
NATHII FOLK SAYING The dog had savaged a woman, an old man and a child before the warriors drove it into an abandoned kiln at the edge of the village. The beast had never before displayed an uncertain loyalty. It had guarded the Uryd lands with fierce zeal, one with its kin in its harsh, but just...
Their looks of alarm and incipient panic brought warmth to the captain’s heart. With Sin-Dour at his side, they traversed the thirteen point six-five meters to the nearest elevator in record time, and leapt aboard. “Bridge deck!” Hadrian said, as Sin-Dour positioned herself beside him. In his per...
the dance of dances Sool Koobie kneeled close to a wall of his cave, a bone tube in one hand, the fingertips of the other red with paint, his mouth full of spit and charcoal. The wall’s red bricks were smooth with age, shiny with the greasy smears of Sool’s shoulders in constant passage, and now ...