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The book starts off incredible and just gets better. I'd be incredibly surprised if I don't give this 5 stars by the end!

Constant updates required so I can fawn extra, above and beyond etc.!!

Spent 8 hrs. in the car today; read a good chunk of this book (it's so kickass!), and a solid bit of Malazan #5 and The Culture #7. Good times!!

"Borders enacted, defended, sallies and breaches, fields of corpses rotting like tumbled fruit. Words ever seeking allies, ever seeking iconic verisimilitude in the heaving press.”

While from the mouth sounds issued forth, recognizably shaped into meanings of passion, of beauty, of blinding clarity. Or muddied or quietly cutting, murderous and evil. Sometimes all at once."Language was war, vaster than any host of swords, spears and sorcery. The self waging battle against everyone else."

“Hands were such extraordinary tools, she mused. Tools, weapons, clumsy and deft, numb and tactile. Among tribal hunters, they could speak, a flurry of gestures eloquent in silence. But they could not taste. Could not hear. Could not weep. For all that, they killed so easily."

'We exist in a state of perpetual stress. Both within ourselves and in the world beyond.’ He shrugged. ‘We may speak of a longing for balance, but in our soul burns a lust for discord.’ ‘If your soul is troubled, Consort,’ Brys said, ‘you hide it well.’ ‘None of us here lack that skill, Finadd'”

“Does it ever strike you, Finadd, that peace leads to an indulgence in strife?’ ‘No, since your statement is nonsensical. The opposite of peace is war, while war is an extreme expression of strife. By your argument, life is characterized as an oscillation between strife during peace and strife during war.’ ‘Not entirely nonsensical, then,’ Turudal Brizad said.

Every day I spend not reading this series is a day I think about/wish I were reading this series; it's so great!