Deadhouse Gates (Book 2 of The Malazan Book of the Fallen)

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En route to the coast, Heboric finds a huge jade pillar that turns out to be merely the finger of an enormous figure, and touches it with his stumps of hands, which draws his god Fener into the mortal realm. Formerly Adjutant Stormy in the days of the old Emperor (see: Old Guard), he’s got that whole ‘serial demotion’ thing down to an even finer art than Ges.

That may well have something to do with the fact that he doesn’t take shit from anyone – including his superiors – and that he’s never afraid to share his opinion. His characterization is brilliant, and he has created people you cheer for (who wouldn’t follow Coltaine? He has always dreamed of writing novels, but so far he has only self-published a play about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ entitled The Gate. When the refugees are caught at a wide river between two armies, Coltaine insists on giving the Malazan nobles under Nethpara no special treatment, despite their protests. A powerful novel of war, intrigue and betrayal, it confirms Steven Erikson as a storyteller of breathtaking skill, imagination and originality - a new master of epic fantasy.Erikson had already written about three hundred pages of the new book when they were lost to a computer failure. Duiker is the Malazan Imperial Historian, which sounds like a position involving a fair amount of prestige. The temple – built into a cliff and inaccessible but for a rope lowered, Rapunzel-style, by its inhabitants – is home to an elderly couple.

Memories of Ice was originally meant to be the second book in sequence, following Gardens of the Moon.Icarium finds one of his own time-measuring devices intact and 94,000 years old in the midst of a destroyed First Empire city, but accepts Fiddler and Mappo's assurances that an ascendant or god must be responsible for the destruction. The only words that I can think of to sum up Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen series are “Wow. Mappo and Icarium’s quest also sets them upon the Path of Hands, whereupon they (handily) cross paths with Crokus and co.

He lives with his wife, their two youngest children, and their black lab in a 160 year-old stone home, which also holds his law office. A book that is epic in both scope and narrative - but for me a book where the payoff of the destination, was not quite worth the effort of the journey.Minala sneaks on board a trader following the Ragstopper, which Pormqual puts in the charge of his treasurer.