Myriad subplots wend throughout, notably including a character’s struggles with addiction, something rarely explored in this genre. That region’s peoples also face a military threat in the form of an army of raiders led by Elade Tharos, who commands a force of clans united by his promise of revenge upon the southerners who took their members as slaves and seized their lands. Catastrophic climate change that means the end of winter for the Malazan world threatens to flood the lands of the south. Erikson burnishes his reputation as a superior epic fantasy world-builder in this trilogy debut, a spin-off of his Malazan Book of the Fallen series, that makes it easy for newcomers to invest, despite the large cast of characters and weighty backstory.
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