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A review by dalinora
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
3.0
“As powerful as fear is, it is no match for what compels me.” Anomander Rake just exudes raw power. A figurative god that can shape-shift into a dragon? Bears a sword named Dragnipur?? Doesn’t get any cooler than that if you ask me. But wait, it actually does. We’ve got a mix of mages, both female and male, who draw power from their “warrens”, which from what I understood is a realm both physical and not, where they can use its magic (For each person it is different). ALSO big props to Erikson for writing female characters normally. They didn’t feel out of place compared to their male counterparts. Tattersail, although we’ve yet to see much from her, piqued my interest immediately.
I was iffy about my rating for various reasons but the ending left me satisfied so I’ll stick with it. This book felt like it was dragging at first is because of how much information is given to us in so little pages. Reading 50 pages felt as if I was reading a whole book. Once you get passed that, reading this book becomes a bit easier. Then there’s another issue which was the introduction of the characters. At any given moment there seemed to be a new character introduced and it kinda felt as if we weren’t being introduced to them properly. It became annoying at times because we’d also just jump from one setting to another too quickly for my taste. But overall that became okay in the last third of the book. Since this is book 1 I expected it to be more of an introduction anyway. I could see that because of all the characters introduced but also the world being created.
I was iffy about my rating for various reasons but the ending left me satisfied so I’ll stick with it. This book felt like it was dragging at first is because of how much information is given to us in so little pages. Reading 50 pages felt as if I was reading a whole book. Once you get passed that, reading this book becomes a bit easier. Then there’s another issue which was the introduction of the characters. At any given moment there seemed to be a new character introduced and it kinda felt as if we weren’t being introduced to them properly. It became annoying at times because we’d also just jump from one setting to another too quickly for my taste. But overall that became okay in the last third of the book. Since this is book 1 I expected it to be more of an introduction anyway. I could see that because of all the characters introduced but also the world being created.