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4.26 AVERAGE
4.26 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Going through and doing a bunch of reviews in a row has reminded me just how many bangers I've read recently.
Malazan is Malazan. It's fantastic. It's epic. It's got over 350 characters and counting. And it's my understanding that book 5 has almost none of the characters from the first 4 books. Because of course it doesn't. Which kinda sucks, but this keeps happening and Erikson always manages to pull it off, so I'm sure I'll end up loving all these new ones as well. He definitely did it here: starting off this book with basically a full novella entirely focused on a character with maybe 5 pages of screen time in book 2 and nowhere else...and it slaps? I mean, Karsa is a horrible person and does horrible things, but by the end we're still rooting for him? Because of course we are.
Four down, six to go. Might try audiobooking one. Michael Page does the rest of them, and I've heard he's very good. Trying him out with The Lies of Locke Lamora at the moment, and he's definitely doing a great job so far.
Malazan is Malazan. It's fantastic. It's epic. It's got over 350 characters and counting. And it's my understanding that book 5 has almost none of the characters from the first 4 books. Because of course it doesn't. Which kinda sucks, but this keeps happening and Erikson always manages to pull it off, so I'm sure I'll end up loving all these new ones as well. He definitely did it here: starting off this book with basically a full novella entirely focused on a character with maybe 5 pages of screen time in book 2 and nowhere else...and it slaps? I mean, Karsa is a horrible person and does horrible things, but by the end we're still rooting for him? Because of course we are.
Four down, six to go. Might try audiobooking one. Michael Page does the rest of them, and I've heard he's very good. Trying him out with The Lies of Locke Lamora at the moment, and he's definitely doing a great job so far.
adventurous
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
These books are so hard to summarise. I don't think they're as hard to keep track of as it's widely held: just read the book and trust the author; those curious threads and interesting characters will be picked up later.
This one introduces Karsa Orlong, an Uryd, Teblor, Thelomen Toblakai... (Okay that is a little complex but it works) and if Malazan characters spend a lot of time railing against the plots of gods then this guy is the Malazanest. And he's an absolute baðaðstaða (I've no idea what that means but it's a great autocorrect so I'm keeping it) in the best possible way.
Adjunct Tavore is sent to crush a rebellion against the Malazan empire in the seven cities, formed around a whirlwind goddess in the raraku desert. There are plots. There is intrigue. Gods and ascendants and old favourite characters (the ones still left), converge. And Toblakai says nah fuck this. It's great.
This one introduces Karsa Orlong, an Uryd, Teblor, Thelomen Toblakai... (Okay that is a little complex but it works) and if Malazan characters spend a lot of time railing against the plots of gods then this guy is the Malazanest. And he's an absolute baðaðstaða (I've no idea what that means but it's a great autocorrect so I'm keeping it) in the best possible way.
Adjunct Tavore is sent to crush a rebellion against the Malazan empire in the seven cities, formed around a whirlwind goddess in the raraku desert. There are plots. There is intrigue. Gods and ascendants and old favourite characters (the ones still left), converge. And Toblakai says nah fuck this. It's great.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
tense
medium-paced