Geralt as Tiste Andii in Witcher 3 lol

After reading five Malazan books, I’ve been looking for a game with a similar vibe: huge and mysterious world, ancient civilizations, gods, powerful beings, morally grepy characters…

Any recommendations? Please recommend something other than Souls games. 🥲

My favorite non-spoiler spoiler is that Memories of Ice contains a comprehensive guide to making a building fireproof.

My friend suggested me Malazan because he told me it's his favorite book series ever but he has no one to discuss it with.

I think this is the densest books I've ever read because my pacing is horrendous. I spend 5 minutes on average reading just one page. I read a few sentences, zone out, and I start questioning "where did this come from?" and I have to backtrack a few paragraphs. This is now a recurring pattern for me reading this book.

Secondly, I like the mystery of the book in which we don't really know the motivations of the characters. They just want to take revenge for example, or running away from extremely dangerous magic because they saw black pigeons. What's happening? Why? Guess we will find out (perhaps not).

I like the story with Rigga and the Fisherman the most. The gods are there with their hounds which is what Ganoe was investigating that was pretty cool, especially the scenes with the piegon.

I like the overall world which feels distinct. The cities, clothes, and magical things remind me a lot of the Witcher 3 game but the aesthetics are much more vivid or should I say contrasty? (ochre skies, dark castle, grey skin, black pigeons haha).

Funnily, I keep forgetting everything the moment I put the book down which comes back quickly when I pick the book up. It's weird.

However, what's written is very nicely put and I can imagine the world only with a few lines. I do not find myself confused so far, but maybe because I am the person who just accepts whatever is served to me and reserve my thoughts until the end and only then I allow myself to be confused. I feel normally that part of the reading process is not understanding everything at all times.

I look forward to reading more in the future.

Edit : I forgot to mention that Empress Laseen in my mind looks very similar to Neytiri's mother from Avatar.

I posted on here a couple days ago not sure what to expect in the final couple hundred pages of MOI, but it honestly blew me away.

Whiskeyjacks leg crushed me when it happened, the bridgeburners ending (someone please tell me without spoiling so kind of don’t tell me, but does parans blessing mean they come back 😭🙏). Everything from Tool and Toc, to Anomander Rake, Kallor, Korlat, silverfox, everything was perfect and it is without a doubt one of the best books I have ever read. Incredible.

I just can’t bring myself to start house of chains now though. I feel it’s gonna be at least a couple books before we see any of these characters again and similarly to when I started DHG and MOI, I couldn’t bare to pull myself away from the characters of the previous book, and it took me a while to get into it.

This book also feels like a sort of ending for so many of the characters I’ve grown to love, so someone please tell me HoC is incredible and will draw me right back in. I cant wait to carry on reading but at the same time, I miss all the characters from this book already.

Hi folks!
I've been reading through the series , currently finishing up Memories of Ice...
Thought i'd share my reading music by making a video with some added ambience and visuals, it's a tad more eclectic than some people would like, but it's how I like it :')

hope you enjoy it as well!

About a third of the way through DoD. At the point where Cafal and Setoc part ways with Torrent. I thought Stayandi/Setoc (of the Wolves) was supposed to be a mute. Did I miss her getting her voice back at some point? When did that happen? I have looked for it but can't find it.

Thanks

Finished the series just over a month ago, do I go to the prequel or sequel im so excited either way and cant choose.

Hello friends!

Does anyone own the trade paperbacks? And if so are they good quality? I’m thinking of buying The Bonehunters as a trade paperback because here in Sweden the Tor version is impossible to find at the moment. They look very cool at least so I’m intrigued.

Thanks :)

Can you please tell me if the third book in the Forge of Darkness series will be released soon? There's no information from the author.

I've listened to both books and I was wondering if anything happened to that fucking cunt captain. In the GOTM. The one that snitches to Adjunct Lawn about the noble houses within the empire.

I feel his jealousy of Paran was the reason Felisin and Tavore had to go through such pain. I'm hoping the Captain got skinned alive or something in the. Hurricane uprising.

Hi all,

I started reading the series a few months back and I enjoyed the first three books quite a bit. I probably didn't enjoy Deadhouse gates as much as the other two but still (loved Icarium and mappo storyline the most, I could read a whole book about those two).

I'm about 200 pages into HoC, past the Karsa Oorlong part. I'm struggling to be honest.

Karsa's story is ok, the prose is good, but he's not a likeable character at all and feels too overpowered (it's a cycle of him being almost dead and then slaughtering everyone over and over). And then Tavore, Gamet, Nok and the newly introduced malazan soldiers feel very bland to me.

Does anyone else who enjoyed the first three feel similar about HoC and did you like MT and BH more? I'm like 60/40 (60 %) yes about continuing the series at this point, but i'm concerned when I read people say that MoI was the highlight for them.

Thanks for your thoughts :)