gotterdammerung 's review for:

Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson
4.0

Excellent follow-up to a competent opener in Gardens of the Moon. Mostly full of new characters, with a couple holdovers/leftovers, but I missed Anomander Rake.

Has several Bataan Deathmatches types throughout, and continues to expand upon the interesting worldbuilding of the first by moving the plot on another continent.

Like the first, the plot keeps moving briskly, rarely stops to allow the reader to breathe. FWIW, upon completion I went out & grabbed book 3, Memories of Ice.