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Wow, well this one took a while to get into, and I really struggled to work out what was going on for a while. Not helped I suspect by being on holiday and expecting a much simpler read. Keeping all the characters in my head was a challenge, and the author certainly was expecting the reader to do a lot of the work, which for me was a problem early on.
Towards the end of the book the pacing increased dramatically, but the number of insane boss battles, disasters and gods popping up made the whole ...more
Towards the end of the book the pacing increased dramatically, but the number of insane boss battles, disasters and gods popping up made the whole ...more
Intentionally dense and complicated world, but enjoyable. Multiple characters and viewpoints and wide-ranging magic. It had all the right elements, but it didn't possess me like some other fantasy epic openers have.
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Meh. I'd heard great things, but it simply failed to do anything for me. I couldn't make myself care, at all.
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This is the best book I have read in a long time. It is what I expected from game of thrones and didn't quite get.
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Dec 26, 2012
Kevin Xu
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
35-until-becoming-an-aficionados,
re-read
Jan 26, 2019
Chris Haught
rated it
it was amazing
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Shelves:
malazan-books,
fantasy-buddy-reads
