steven erikson malazan book of the fallen goodreads

Sorcerers and magical beings have access to a magical system made up of Warrens, which I don’t fully understand yet, but which seem to be an intricate web of magical planes that can be accessed and directed in the physical world, but also traveled through. But that’s not all, or even the main thing. The closest comparison I can draw is to the Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman, in which gods and great beings of legend play parts, and they’re not gods from any religious system we know, yet somehow they make intrinsic sense and you believe in them.

The magic system. This is high fantasy, with equal parts dark and military fantasy inside it, but it’s like nothing I’ve seen in fantasy. I can’t think of anything bad about Gardens of the Moon, so, no pun intended, here are the things that impressed me: “Cotillion: The Rope,” Patron of Assassins, with the god Shadowthrone, by Shadaan I expect my understanding of these characters and themes to change quite a bit, so maybehaps I’ll post on the topic again in the future. The first book, Gardens of the Moon, is AMAZING, and definitely a good story on its own, but as I’m only just getting into the complete opus I thought it’d be most appropriate to record my first impressions rather than to do a full review of just the first book.

I’d never heard a word about the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson until quite recently, but after a recommendation from a friend, I stumbled onto a massive ten-book dark fantasy series with a devoted cult fanbase.

Steven erikson malazan book of the fallen goodreads