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Title: Midnight Tides
Title: Midnight Tides
Series:
Malazan Book of the Fallen #5
Author:
Steven Erikson
Rating:
3 of 5 Stars
Genre:
Fantasy
Pages:
684
Format:
Digital edition
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Synopsis: |
We follow the Tisti Edur [grayskinned Tisti] as they come into the world of Malaz. Fast forward several thousand years later and they have dwindled. They attempt to gain back their pre-eminence by declaring Empire and going against the only other Empire in the region. The main Edur stories center around the Sengar family. One of whom becomes the Emperor and the pawn of the Broken god.
We follow the human Letheri Empire as
they attempt to subjugate the last remaining pocket of resistance to
their Empire and way of life, the Tisti Edur. The main Letheri
storylines follow the Beddict brothers. One is the King's Champion,
one is a dissolute genius who can manipulate money with barely
thinking about it and the final Beddict was a former envoy whose
knowledge was used for conquest and not peace.
Lots of little stories interweave
between them all and a little more is revealed about the Broken god.
The conflict between Edur and Lether is
the framework of the whole story.
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My
Thoughts:
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This was a 4star story that was dragged
down with the chains of Erikson's pointless soapbox philosophizing
hijacking his characters and turning them all into despair filled,
spineless, wusses.
Why can't the man just shut the phrack
up and tell the story?!?!?
Gardens of the Moon was
a fantastic story and there was very little pontificating. Maybe a
small dab in the corner. This book, Erikson took a 5foot roller and
bloody whitewashed the story with the crap. Every time you turned
around another character was whining about their forsaken feelings
and how they weren't even worthy of having such degrading feelings
because they were such infinitely unworthy motes in an infinite
universe. It was pathetic and ruined the book for me.
The
story, the clash between Edur and Letheri was great. A couple of
magic battles, some mundane battles and then a showdown in the palace
itself. All the while the Broken god is laughing to himself and
furthering his own plans.
★★★☆☆
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