This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every soldier in every world… Bill is minor spoilery.In war everyone loses.

It absolutely helped me my first time around.

Tor Reread of the Fallen This has two people, Amanda the newbie and Bill the re-reader doing extensive chapter summaries and analysis. We love impressions from first time readers! Any questions or 'wtf is going on!?' comments just ask here or over at r/malazan. Of course, if it just doesen't click with you, that's fine too! No book is for everybody.Īny confusion you feel is normal and does not mean you don't 'get it'. His first book Gardens of the Moon was written nine years before the second and it shows a bit, there are problems with pacing and such, but by Book 2 and 3 all that goes away. The author is an archeologist and an anthropologist so the world building is second to none. Every place you visit has an ancient feel to it, every race you interact with has a millenia of history, every character has a lifetime of stories to tell. This tale isn't always about individual characters, it's about how the various character/plot threads interact and weave in and out of affecting each other. But nearly every book ends with the last 200 pages with you sweaty, breathless, weepy, exhilerated and it's 5 in the morning and you have to work at 7 but you don't care because you just had an epic experience and will be thinking about it all day and you can't wait to read the next one. Keep reading and all will become clear over time. Eriksen's books tend to start off slow, characters, plot, history, a lot of introspective philosophy, theres' a LOT in these books. This is normal! Malazan does not spoonfeed you very much, you have to piece togther characters and plotlines and how the world works. It can be confusing at first, I won't lie, It has a cast of hundreds, a ton of plot thrown at you, you feel like you got dropped into a foreign country with no guidebook and you don't speak the language. It does get easier the more used you get to Eriksen's style. The first book, Gardens of the Moon is the hardest.

Malazan Series Spoiler Free ReviewĪnd it is the best series I have ever read.

Fave review of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Eriksen, covers why it's so good. Fear not, you are not alone in your thoughts! We all went through this.

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