Yes. Now if he could get out from yonder(been nearly 2 years since they published any new chapters btw, so maybe) and publish the final version in a way that doesn't involve predatort microtransactions....
I shared your frustration about the plot armour for the bad guys but I still really enjoyed the series and was glad I finished it. I was less enamored with the three books that came after those, but I still quite enjoyed them.
Just finished The Sword of Kaigen. I enjoyed it, and wouldn't mind reading more stories in the same (Theonite) universe.
SoK is great except for the last 5%. They should have stopped at end of plot and not added the melodrama at the end. I still felt Misaki was under utilized and could be more of a badass that she got to be.
I dropped Tao Wong from my list of authors to read because he showed himself to be such a dreadful human being'
Is this more wuxia or xianxia?
Moderns books are hard to classify. I'd say this is a hybrid as we have a powerful warrior progressing from weak to strong as central plotline (wuxia). But it also has spirits and creatures which blend into xianxia.
Book 4 of Path to Ascendancy?Just in case anyone missed it, there's new Malazan out
No way! Wow, I feel so deprived
So far so good. Though, at this stage it's been so long and there are so many characters I need to have a wiki open to recall them all.From Goodreads:
Only a decade later? Do any of the original Malazan characters, Ganoes Paran, Fiddler, Karsa Orlong, Icarium,...etc., appear in the book?
Spindle is a PoV character. Otherwise, iirc no. Maybe in passing, but otherwise only get mentioned
Will agree that the Kellenvad/Dancer series is a bit...different, I think maybe it's just more approachable? The fourth book was good I thought, though it has the 'prequel' problem which I hate - characters that are in the later books are put in dangerous situations and you know they'll be fine.
I read the first one and really I liked the sort of Dune meets Book of the New Sun vibe, but it sagged in the second half. I have the second book ready to read, but I keep finding other books to read first.
Talking about the ICE books:
Hes also a major character in the latest book too. And bizarrely, pretty awful at organizing and running things. Strange they make him a 'good' character towards the end.
Isn't the book about Karsa's offspring or am I mistaken?
Karsa's son is one of the main PoV yes, and his daughters also appear
