While the overarching story is enjoyable and the characters are well written, the sheer complexity of the world is mind numbing. There are so many characters, peoples, races (of humans and other humanoids), tribes, Gods, places, cities, continents, warrens/dimensions, magic systems and other named things that you can't possibly remember even a tenth of them.
As deep and wide as all the oceans combined. Review of the first five books (spoiler free):Įxtremely convoluted. If you are a serious fantasy reader, devour these books. If you can follow this story, if you can withstand it all, you will be duly rewarded as towers of plot built up on deaths and ploys and more crash down and swallow you whole. You will be uplifted, then you will be crushed again. Everything can be broken.īefore all is through, you will have tasted pure grief, sadness, joy, relief. Your mind will yanked and wrenched like a dirty washcloth as you try to devour the details of a profound and insane world, built on the plot that runs on hundreds of thousands of deaths as gods war with gods, and mortals war with gods, and mortals war with mortals and armies clash with armies, and races clash with gods, and the players of the game fall into each others' games, before it all comes to a jarring end.
Unmatched in its complexity and depth, this mindblowing fantasy epic promises to break you, and break you again. If you like high fantasy with vast armies, powerful magics, scheming gods and rulers, epic battles between uber mensch or armies, a vast and intricate history and worldbuilding, harrowing sacrifices, Men ascending goodhood, gods dying - all written in exquisite language and minute details (you end up realising that three books ago a hint was dropped on the current situation)you should start reading them. The production value would just bankrupt any studio if they tried it. But I think I would hate it if they tried to film TMBotF because I believe there is no way to make the story justice. I love seeing the LoTR made into movie and Game of Thrones into series. His books are worth rereads several times, and considering there are 10 of them, each about 800-1000+ pages long, this says a lot about how good they are. However it is frustrating that so many people talk about George RR Martin, Tolkien, Robert Jordan etc yet so few talk about Erikson. There is no need to talk about Terry Pratchett as his 40+ books, plays etc says it all. Even though I enjoyed a lot of them in my mind there are only two authors that automatically carry a stamp of quality of uber writing with their name, Steven Erikson and Terry Pratchett. I read Tolkien when I was 11 and have read most of the big names in the genre. This review is for the whole series, all ten books of The Malazan Book of the Fallen.
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