“Gripping, fast-moving, delightfully dark… utterly engrossing.” “A world that is both absorbing on a human level and full of magical sublimity… a wonderfully grand conception …splendidly written… fiendishly readable.” The Black Company, Zelazny’s Amber, Vance’s Dying Earth, and other mighty drumbeats are but foreshadowings of this dark dragon’s hoard.” This marathon of ambition has a depth and breadth and sense of vast reaches of inimical time unlike anything else available today.

This masterwork of imagination may be the high water mark of epic fantasy. “I stand slack-jawed in awe of The Malazan Book of the Fallen. And my entirely selfish advice to Steven Erikson is, write faster.” My advice to anyone who might listen to me is, Treat yourself to Gardens of the Moon. So, check out our guide to the series here! Reviews for The Series This series is definitely well worth a read. Reviewers praise the epic scope, plot complexity, and characterizations. The series has received widespread critical acclaim. Each of the first five novels is relatively self-contained, in that each resolves its respective primary conflict but many underlying characters and events are interwoven throughout the works of the series, binding it together. The plot presents a complicated series of events in the world upon which the Malazan Empire is located. The series is very complex with a wide scope and presents the narratives of a large cast of characters spanning thousands of years across multiple continents. It kicks off with Gardens of the Moon and concludes with The Crippled God. It is a series of epic fantasy novels written by the Canadian author Steven Erikson.

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