754 reviews for:

Midnight Tides

Steven Erikson

4.42 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional funny fast-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
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective 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

therealjamesanderson's review

5.0
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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: Complicated

Trull Sengar and Tehol Beddict are some of the best characters in all of fiction 

omgitsjanelle_'s review

5.0
adventurous dark funny slow-paced
dark funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

gearyofbooks's review

4.0
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

Once again Erikson takes a hard left and challenges you while he paints a new corner of the world in all its glorious, dark, funny and poignant moments, characters and actions. This is a deep and rich world and utterly worth your time. 

Ah! Another entry done. And it was another hard one to get through. Nay, trudge through.

We are introduced to another fuck-ton of characters and their pseudonyms and their alternate names and their secret identities etc etc. I have zero clue about what happened in half of this book. Because I was again overwhelmed.

The silver-lining was a few characters. Like Bugg and Tehol. Or maybe the Sengar brothers. I followed their story lines. And rest of the time I was zoned out of my fucking mind.

Yet, I liked the whole experience somehow. Maybe because of the last line by Bugg
Spoiler about kicking a god senseless
.

Onto Bonehunters, where everything till now is supposed to make sense. Oy vey.

hueofgray's review

5.0

I was not expecting comedy in such a gruesome and violent series but I can honestly say that I really enjoyed
it and I hope it’s continued in future books. This book still gruesome and violent though, I can’t picture and Malazan book not being so.

ericamh_'s review

5.0
adventurous challenging funny mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

saitu282's review

5.0
adventurous dark emotional funny informative mysterious sad 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

Painful, poignant, and tragic as fuck. Some vindication, but nowhere near enough. Easily the most painful book yet, in this series. Brace yourself.