Mass Market Paperback, 944 pages
English language
Published July 31, 2006 by Tor Fantasy.
a story about love, grief, loss, redemption, and humanity. What a goddamn book.
2011:
I really enjoyed reading this book. It is huge full of plot and characters and sometimes just a bit confusing but less so than the first book in the series. This is the third. Finally some of the intrigue that is going on in the background is explained. I hope that unlike the Cylons the author has a plan.
I still get confused by the amount of characters that keep appearing.
I was bit disappointed that some of my favorite characters from the second book never showed up. But the plot of this one is mostly happening at the same time as the second book I think.
I'll definitely keep reading the series, I just need a break. This is not an easily digested quick-read.
Something I noted is the lack of romance in the books. There is romantic involvement between characters but not in the romance novel style. …
2011:
I really enjoyed reading this book. It is huge full of plot and characters and sometimes just a bit confusing but less so than the first book in the series. This is the third. Finally some of the intrigue that is going on in the background is explained. I hope that unlike the Cylons the author has a plan.
I still get confused by the amount of characters that keep appearing.
I was bit disappointed that some of my favorite characters from the second book never showed up. But the plot of this one is mostly happening at the same time as the second book I think.
I'll definitely keep reading the series, I just need a break. This is not an easily digested quick-read.
Something I noted is the lack of romance in the books. There is romantic involvement between characters but not in the romance novel style. In this third installment there is a bit more than in the first two but still very little. Even Wheel of Time has more romance. Anyway what I noted was: I didn't miss it and I love me the romance of Black Jewels or Kushiel.
Fascinating series, it just takes a lot of time to read and that is saying something from someone who just read all seven Outlander novels in about 2 months time.
2017:
Six years later, I never ever noticed the lack of romance I complained about up there. I just noticed how terrible fate treated some of my favorite characters and how heartbreaking the ending was. My rating remains the same.
It took three long books, but I'm finally starting to give a crap about some of these characters. Unfortunately, quite a few of them got killed off in this book. However, I've come to expect that nobody - NOBODY - ever really dies in this series, so they'll probably all be back as gods or something.
I enjoyed Book 3 because of the ground work laid in the previous books. The appearance of familiar characters, a quick pace to the story and K’Chain Che’Malle made this a more enjoyable read, but anything involving the K’Chain Che’Malle held me captive. The battles in this story were numerous but very gruesome. I enjoy the internal monologue that discusses the consequences of battle and how people change because of it, this adds a human touch to an otherwise violent act.
I am not fully on board with the series but will stick with it because the stories are progressively improving and leaving me left in the dark for what is happening.
Another satisfying book in the Malazan Book of the Fallen. I am really liking this series and will try my best to finish it.
What can I say about this book? Superb characters, the same detailed setting we know and love, and an intricate plot as we have come to expect from Steven Erikson.
Minor quibbles are that it felt like two books (until the conclusion) due to the two big climaxes at Capustan and Cora and minor typographic errors in my Kindle version.
I've written a much more detailed review here: strakul.blogspot.com/2012/03/book-review-memories-of-ice-by-steven.html
