false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170449616m/55398.jpg 55398 9 <div><div>In Northern Genabackis, a raiding party of savage tribal warriors descends from the mountains into the southern flatlands. Their intention is to wreak havoc amongst the despised lowlanders, but for the one named Karsa Orlong it marks the beginning of what will prove to be an extraordinary destiny.<br> Some years later, it is the aftermath of the Chain of Dogs. Tavore, the Adjunct to the Empress, has arrived in the last remaining Malazan stronghold of Seven Cities. New to command, she must hone twelve thousand soldiers, mostly raw recruits but for a handful of veterans of Coltaine&#8217;s legendary march, into a force capable of challenging the massed hordes of Sha&#8217;ik&#8217;s Whirlwind who lie in wait in the heart of the Holy Desert.<br>But waiting is never easy. The seer&#8217;s warlords are locked into a power struggle that threatens the very soul of the rebellion, while Sha&#8217;ik herself suffers, haunted by the knowledge of her nemesis: her own sister, Tavore.<br> And so begins this awesome new chapter in Steven Erikson&#8217;s acclaimed Malazan Book of the Fallen . . . </div></div> 836472 2002 House of Chains (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #4) total:807|5:364|4:333|3:99|2:11|1:0| 807 3471 1123 43 4 5 false false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 15:25:01 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 00:08:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 02:01:02 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 02:17:14 -0700 2008
And that's how you write a review of a Steven Erikson book.

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While Erikson still doesn't do much in ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 20:38:05 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 21:47:41 -0700 2009 House of Chains is the single longest cohesive block of writing that is in any of the books so far -- some two hundred and fifty pages of a single point of view told sequentially. Perhaps not coincidentally, it's also by far the best writing in the series to this point, a compellin...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Aug 01 08:47:07 -0700 2007 Fri Feb 29 10:17:08 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Apr 04 20:36:56 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 20:40:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 23:09:34 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 23:10:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 19:17:54 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 03:18:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 21 18:32:56 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 18:37:30 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 00:36:31 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 17:45:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 23 04:02:05 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 04:03:01 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 13 09:15:01 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 09:15:47 -0800 2009
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It held my interest and attention much better than Midnight Tides...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 06 05:24:23 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 05:24:23 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 22 07:17:16 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 22 07:23:57 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 20:23:53 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 12:59:01 -0800 2008
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