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vermidian 's review for:
Deadhouse Gates
by Steven Erikson
I have quit this book at just shy of half way through.
While the world building remains superb, the author does not do a great job of introducing you to his fictional regions and towns. There are so many places that they fly over your head and are generally pretty insignificant in the long run.
I also had a gripe about the characters tending to not have much of a personality. Some did, granted, but a lot of them just tended to be viewpoints into the world and lacked any sort of individuality aside from their name. While others have praised the fighting in the book and how well written out the battles were, I just found myself wishing they were over after so so many character names of tiny side characters get flung at you. I miss the significance of characters in the first book. And, while some characters carry over, they rarely appear and when they do, it doesn’t seem to bear any significance to the world events that take up the majority of the book.
I can see how some would enjoy this, but I just feel like there isn’t enough here to make me really care. Besides that, this book is hopelessly dense. I find my self wanting to set it aside after ten pages. Gardens of the Moon has this book beat for sure. I’m cutting my losses and ending my reading in this series here.
While the world building remains superb, the author does not do a great job of introducing you to his fictional regions and towns. There are so many places that they fly over your head and are generally pretty insignificant in the long run.
I also had a gripe about the characters tending to not have much of a personality. Some did, granted, but a lot of them just tended to be viewpoints into the world and lacked any sort of individuality aside from their name. While others have praised the fighting in the book and how well written out the battles were, I just found myself wishing they were over after so so many character names of tiny side characters get flung at you. I miss the significance of characters in the first book. And, while some characters carry over, they rarely appear and when they do, it doesn’t seem to bear any significance to the world events that take up the majority of the book.
I can see how some would enjoy this, but I just feel like there isn’t enough here to make me really care. Besides that, this book is hopelessly dense. I find my self wanting to set it aside after ten pages. Gardens of the Moon has this book beat for sure. I’m cutting my losses and ending my reading in this series here.