#but if ur doing a prequel to set up ur lore hints
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I'm looking forward to getting to forge of darkness but ngl the path to ascendancy books are taking too much of the mystery away from the malazan series - like it's cool to see kellanved and dancer goof about but it feels like it's just checking off names people recognise, even when it contradicts stuff we know about Whiskeyjack and Dujek (for example) just to have them be there at the start?? I'd much rather each book skip ahead a decade or something, and focus on stuff we barely even heard about before, not just "oh you remember that really cool thing we hinted at? yeah here it is laid out pretty prosaically".
Idk if it's Ian Esslemont, bc from the two (2) of his empire books I've read I really enjoy his writing style and think it meshes well, but they're just kinda draining a lot of the magic out. Things like the Tiste Edur and K'chain Che'malle are talked about as slightly niche but common knowledge, and it's just a bit lame?
#malazan book of the fallen#just a waffle#the mainline books and return of the crimson guard#and even night of knives which ik has mixed feelings#I really enjoy#and feel more able to overlook some inconsistencies bc it's more formatted as a history or an epic#but Ian you have all these facts laid out already#even between crimson guard and kellanved#s read#Both Of Which You Wrote#you contradict yourself#like ig it could be Silk evading or whatever#but#ugh#idk#I still enjoyed them and I want to read forge of the high mage asap#but if ur doing a prequel to set up ur lore hints#at least match up to more of ur lore hints#or lampshade it a little more#bc the books of the empire feel much more standard prose than the BotF
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