Deadhouse Gates is the second in Erikson’s Malazan series. It is dark, you guys. This might be the wrong time of my life for me to read it. I really enjoyed the first book in this series, Gardens of the Moon. The things I enjoyed in the first book are found here again – incredibly world building, dropping the reader into the midst of a series of rich plots and being expected to just pick it up, and some characters that are not just tropes. […]
Book 1: Malazan Book of the Fallen
When I was looking for new books to try, my friend recommended Morden’s Metrozone series and the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Of course, the Metrozone series veered off the rails for me, but I am buying what Erikson is selling here. Plus, Canadian! I started reading this on the plane to Hawaii, and although I had been warned by both my friend and Erikson’s foreword, I was surprised at how this book just drops the reader right in the middle of a very […]