754 reviews for:

Midnight Tides

Steven Erikson

4.42 AVERAGE

dark mysterious sad 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

willybilly's review

4.0

Memories of Ice, Midnight tides, House of chains

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lookingforvheissu's review

5.0
adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

igglemustang's review

4.5
adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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: Yes

kelly617's review

3.5
adventurous challenging dark slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark funny slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
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bsplantbooks's review

4.25
adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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arf88's review

2.0

The second half of this book is amazing, and if you can get through the first half it's worth the read.

The plot doesn't get started till 50% of the way through. Considering the length of the book, that means you have to read the equivalent of an entire novel before anything happens.

The book is constantly see-sawing in tone. One moment there's slapstick comedy, the next there's Hamlet style tragedy. It really doesn't mesh well at all.

The anti-capitalist stance starts interesting, becomes hilarious in it's persistence, then starts to seriously annoy as it continues, and at the end I can't help but think that it was some sort of reverse psychology, designed to make you pro-capitalist. That, or Erikson owed the bank a lot of money.

Overall, an interesting story but the worst book in the series so far.