Sean McCann’s Reviews > Toll the Hounds > Status Update

This is just so good so consistently. And funny too:

Baruk, re: Pust: "What was ST thinking?"

"The question clearly depressed her [Qualm]. 'I admit to a crisis of faith, High Alchemist'". lolol

I love Jaghut humor.

Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.”

Erikson out here breaking hearts unexpectedly :(

"Is this a truth made manifest? Do we all feed on the pain of others? Do we laugh and dance upon suffering, simply because it is not our own? Can such a thing become addictive? An insatiable need?" Relevant passage in chapter 6 with respect to the worst of the worst kind of people of this series. Onto book 2, with book 1 being perhaps the strongest book 1 of any Malazan book! Confusing, yes I know.

"Sacrifices must be weighted by the pain of what is surrendered, and this alone was the true measure of a virtue's worth." Chapter 5, and this book might have the strongest start of any Malazan book so far.

RAKE <3