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Title: Dust of Dreams
Series: Malazan Book of the Fallen #9
Author: Steven Erikson
Rating: 1.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 950
Format: Digital Edition
Series: Malazan Book of the Fallen #9
Author: Steven Erikson
Rating: 1.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 950
Format: Digital Edition
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Synopsis:
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The White Faced
Bargast, now returned to their ancestral lands, are hemmed in by the
lands current sets of clans and misused.The Bargast are now led by
Onos Toolan, a resurrected T'lan Imass. He is trying to change their
ways but in the face of a hostile land, the Bargast reject Toolan's
leadership, kill him, hobble his wife and drive off his children.
Toolan comes back as a T'lan (hence the Dust of Dreams). The Bargast
face their enemies but everyone is destroyed when “something”
simply freezes them all into little pieces. Toolan hunts down the
survivors and kills them all to fulfill his vengeance against the
Bargast. In doing so, he ignores a summons by Adjunct Tavore and the
Bonehunters.
The Bonehunters are
leaving Lether to head through the Wastes into a kingdom where a
piece of the Fallen god is. The Adjunct's plan is to destroy said
piece. They are supposed to meet up with the Bargast (that obviously
doesn't happen) and the Grey Helms, a mercenary branch. The
Bonehunters are accompanied by Brys Beddict and his elite guards from
Letheri.
A Skykeep of
K'chain Che'Malle origin, with the help of a lone surviving human,
must find a Shield Anvil and a Mortal Sword if this set of K'Chain
want to survive. They get Stormy and Gessler. They meet up with the
Bonehunters.
Icarium is now a
ghost and haunting a group of people who have found an abandoned Sky
Keep. They begin to awaken the Keep, which was created just to
destroy the short-tailed K'Chain, the Narruk.
The Narruk, who
have a dozen skykeeps from another realm, invade the world of Malaz
and end up in the Wastes. It is up to the Bonehunters and everyone
else in the area to destroy them. But without the help of the T'lan
Imass, the outcome is in doubt.
There is a huge
devastating battle at the end and whole armies are destroyed. We
don't know who survives.
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My
Thoughts:
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Before I started writing this review, I went and read my original one
from 2010, just to see if my perspective on this book had changed. A
lot of the time the years give me a new viewpoint and something I
used to like I no longer do or something I hated I now enjoy.
Unfortunately, the review from 2010 is pretty much exactly the same
as what I'll be writing here.
With this book Erikson has cemented in my mind that he is a real bag
of crap. Out of 950 pages, the plot is only forwarded by maybe 200 of
those pages. The rest is devoted Erikson spewing out depressing cant
and nonsense. Complete and utter nonsense. When somebody does do
something good and heroic, Erikson makes sure to piss on it by having
other characters destroy the moment with their own regrets and
melancholy and depression. Any possible good thing Erikson squats
over and craps on with a diarrhea quality.
This is a junk book and once again, while the series starts out so
awesomely with Gardens
of the Moon, it has descended into a morass of soapbox
preaching and what's worse, extremely BORING soapbox preaching. I no
longer recommend this series because of the last 3 books.
This is the level of bloviated writing that destroyed the sales of
his Karkanas trilogy (which is stuck at book 2 and looks like it will
never get finished). Thankfully, Ian Esslemont seems to be doing a
good job of actually writing a real trilogy with a real plot and
keeping the world of Malaz alive. I do plan on reading the last book
in this series but after that, I'll just stick to Gardens of the
Moon if I ever feel the need to dip my toes into the world of
Malaz. It just isn't fun sticking my head under this faucet of filth.
★☆☆☆½
- Previous Malazan Books of the Fallen Reviews
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