Gardens of the Moon by Steven EriksonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Now what do I say about this? It's difficult to talk about such a large piece of work when you've only peeked in through the door of what it's all about. The Malazan books of the Fallen is a ten book series with many other short stories, novels and novellas based in the same universe.
The character count goes into thousands probably and it's a completely different universe. Completely different rules, a unique magic system, characters that will haunt your dreams, politics that has more twists and turns than a hill road, it's just mind-boggling and tiring to even think of writing about the Malazan series.
Many people do not like the first book, which is this, Gardens of The Moon. They find it confusing and lengthy because of the lack of world building and hand holding, but why should there be something like that? We're all mature readers, and the Malazan books push you to stretch your imagination and figure things out.
There are no answers in this one. It's just a big awesome thing that has been put in your hands, maybe like a 2000 piece jigsaw with no image given to you and you solve it as you go.
In one word, I'd call this book beautiful. And be warned, it's not for everyone.
If you like your stories simple and easy, give this a pass, but if you like strange and wonderful and badass things, pick this one up today with the rest of the nine books and forget reading about anything else for the rest of the year.
because i am not reading anything else for sure.
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