Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, Vol. 1)
Steven Erikson · 1999
The most demanding epic fantasy series ever written. Erikson built a sprawling, merciless, anthropologically rigorous world with hundreds of gods and empires, then trusted readers to keep up. Those who do find the most emotionally overwhelming fantasy series in print.
The case against
Erikson opens mid-war, mid-continent, mid-pantheon, with no explanations offered and the bones of a decade-old screenplay showing. Hundreds of names arrive before any reason to care about one. Its devotees admit the first few hundred pages are hazing and promise the payoff arrives books later; that is a serious loan against your remaining reading hours.
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