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luana420 's review for:
House of Chains
by Steven Erikson
Erikson's sprawling saga continues as a disorienting new (or is it??) point of view character taking up the first fifth of House of Chains. Gone again are the familiar faces of the previous book, to be replaced by blood crazed barbarian Karsa Orlong. His culture (and quickly apparent extremist status within that culture) is alien and interesting enough that this detour adding even more layers onto what is already a mind-boggingly vast storyline does not annoy. In fact, it all went past rather quickly, considering the relative novelty of just following one guy and knowing his precise motivations.
Once the Karsa storyline rejoins the rest of Malazan, you'll be left scratching your head as to why exactly this wild man warranted such exploration, but I promise you will be Karsa 4 Lyfe by the time he starts understanding his wider role in the world.
As ever, I am giddy to find out what happens next in the Malazan Empire and beyond. Having said this, you may wonder why I knocked a star off.
At one point, Felisin Younger is shown to converse in direct speech for the first time. Now, it had always been a very Erikson thing to do to simply have everyone be erudite and fancy-talkin' as fuck. From an interview, I gleaned that he believes that even the simplest of folk can think about heavy philosophical subjects and the continued disbelief that they can't is pretty classist.
Nice sentiment, Steve, but I think they would employ different registers from literally everyone else, especially if they're 12ish like Felisin Younger.
Once the Karsa storyline rejoins the rest of Malazan, you'll be left scratching your head as to why exactly this wild man warranted such exploration, but I promise you will be Karsa 4 Lyfe by the time he starts understanding his wider role in the world.
As ever, I am giddy to find out what happens next in the Malazan Empire and beyond. Having said this, you may wonder why I knocked a star off.
At one point, Felisin Younger is shown to converse in direct speech for the first time. Now, it had always been a very Erikson thing to do to simply have everyone be erudite and fancy-talkin' as fuck. From an interview, I gleaned that he believes that even the simplest of folk can think about heavy philosophical subjects and the continued disbelief that they can't is pretty classist.
Nice sentiment, Steve, but I think they would employ different registers from literally everyone else, especially if they're 12ish like Felisin Younger.