This is the blood of our lives, this is the Raise high one more time the tattered standard With choked emotions barely in check, I bid this world goodbye… for now. I highly recommend anyone who loves fantasy, especially fans of grimdark, to read this series. To readers who scoff at the genre merely being escapism which never deals with real-life issues, I invite you to partake in this gritty epoch-spanning tale which echoes our actual bloody history – the horrors and grave errors perpetrated by humanity, repeated time and time again. Having said that, while the story is told in a fantasy world, its allegory to our real world is staggeringly on point. Admit it, badass characters are the most memorable and to partake in fantasy is to get swept away by the unreal awesomeness that you don’t encounter in literary fiction. To me, that is part of the fun of reading Malazan which alleviated what seemed like hard work a lot of times.
Although the level of power or ability commanded by some of the characters can be ridiculously off-the-charts, it is somehow appropriate in the context of this world. The battle and action scenes are in equal measures sweeping and intimate cinematic scenes of clashing soldiers and sorcerous conflagration seen from a wide-angle, and combat sequences in close confines, moving from one squad, or an individual, to another.
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The violence in this series is brutal and visceral, but never gratuitous. These are stories of true friendships and enduring love stories of the best of humanity in its darkest, and most dire, hours delivered in a prose that is elegant and profound. So much grief, pain, sorrow and regret emanate from within its pages, beautifully tempered with empathy, compassion, kindness, loyalty and honour. He is a master at strumming powerful chords of emotion. Believe me, Erikson will make you care – even for that minor side character that appeared for mere pages. A stellar cast of characters for that matter, for whom any attempt to assuage emotional investment is futile. The narrative is crazily dense, filled with deep melancholic introspection and philosophical discourse, a mind-boggling number of intertwining storylines and a massive cast of characters.
Malazan Book of the Fallen is exquisitely soul-crushing and yet it can also make your heart soar – even when you’re crying your eyes out. But, in spite of the work and commitment involved in finishing these ten books, it was also one of the most rewarding and fulfilling experiences I’ve ever had. Erikson has skilfully crafted a story with such breadth and depth of worldbuilding and characterisation, and plot complexity, that it seriously challenges the readers. He begins his legendary journey in Genabackis which will take him across the seas, to the Holy Desert Raraku and Shaiks side. The word epic does not even seem to do any justice to this expansive tale and the world in which it takes place. A book dedicated primarily to the wonders of Karsa Orlong. The very end of this book was of the most sublime symmetry to the beginning in Gardens of the Moon. All the major open threads and even some smaller ones came together most compellingly. I will also not spend much time relating about this final instalment, save that it was brilliantly handled with an emotionally exhausting, and wholly satisfying denouement. The Crippled God didn’t leave much room for breathers and I am sure this is the least amount of time I’ve spent finishing a novel in this series – the exception being Gardens of the Moon, which is the shortest book by far. The Crippled God is a breathtaking conclusion to an outstanding series Malazan Book of the Fallen is a masterpiece of its genre and has affirmed its place as my favourite epic grimdark fantasy series. Genre: Epic fantasy, grimdark fantasy, fantasyįirst published: March 2011 by Bantam (UK) and Tor (US) "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Series: Malazan Book of the Fallen (Book 10 of 10) Final questions remain to be answered: can one’s deeds be heroic when no one is there to see it? Can t The Tales of the Malazan Book of the Fallen are drawing to a close in a distant place, beneath indifferent skies, as the last great army of the Malazan Empire seeks a final battle in the name of redemption.
In war everyone loses, and this brutal truth can be found in the eyes of every soldier in every world.Destinies are never simple. The penultimate book in one of the most original, exciting and acclaimed fantasy series of the new century.On the Letherii continent the exiled Malazan army commanded by Adjunct Tavore begins its march into the eastern Wastelands, to fight for an unknown cause against an enemy it has never seen.The fate awaiting the Bonehunters is one no soldier can prepare for, and one no mortal soul can withstand the foe is uncertainty and the only weapon worth wielding is stubborn courage.