Toll the Hounds
2008 • 1,008 pages
Ratings47
Average rating4.6
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Ratings47
Average rating4.6
The eighth book in Erikson's extraordinary, acclaimed and bestselling fantasy sequence.It is said that Hood waits at the end of every plot, every scheme, each grandiose ambition. But this time it is different: this time the Lord of Death is there at the beginning...Darujhistan swelters in the summer heat and seethes with portents, rumours and whispers. Strangers have arrived, a murderer is abroad, past-tyrannies are stirring and assassins seem to be targeting the owners of K'rul's Bar. For the rotund, waistcoat-clad man knows such events will be dwarfed by what is about to happen: for in the distance can be heard the baying of hounds.Far away, in Black Coral, the ruling Tiste Andii appear oblivious to the threat posed by the fast-growing cult of the Redeemer - an honourable, one-mortal man who seems powerless against the twisted vision of his followers.So Hood waits at the beginning of a conspiracy that will shake the cosmos, but at its end there is another: Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, has come to right an ancient and terrible wrong...
Series
10 primary booksMalazan Book of the Fallen is a 12-book series with 12 primary works first released in 1999 with contributions by Steven Erikson and Michał Jakuszewski.
Series
26 primary booksMalazan Authors’ Suggested Reading Order is a 25-book series with 25 primary works first released in 2001 with contributions by Steven Erikson, Ian Cameron Esslemont, and Ian C. Esslemont.
Series
18 primary books32 released booksMalazan is a 32-book series with 18 primary works first released in 1999 with contributions by Steven Erikson, Ian Cameron Esslemont, and 2 others.
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My cover is more in line with the Bantam Book, but the pub and ISBN are Tor 9780765348852.
Toll the Hounds est le huitième tome du cycle de fantasy Malazan Book of the Fallen de Steven Erikson.
Après Reaper's Gale, le tome précédent qui était devenu mon préféré du cycle, je dois dire que celui-ci frappe encore un grand coup, peut-être au point de devenir à son tour mon préféré. Le ton est différent des autres tomes, plus poétique, plus philosophique, plus mélancolique aussi. L'ouvrage est dédié au père de l'auteur, décédé peu avant, ce qui explique peut-être cela. Quoi qu'il en soit, c'est un magnifique roman, à la fois comme oeuvre de fantasy et comme livre sur le deuil.
”There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.” Anomander Rake
I am very happy I gave this series another shot, it is so good! This one is quite different in some ways from many of the others. There is much less military campaign and more following other characters and problems, some ‘normal' people and some of the rich and powerful.
There is lots of death, of characters both old and new - enough to break your heart. It is very well-written and I found lots of quotes that spoke to me.
Of course it's also a book with a lot of Kruppe and Iskaral Pust, and so you will find yourself reading a sentence like this: “The gate creaked open, inviting invitation and so invited Kruppe invited himself in.”
I have no words for this novel.
This was my favorite Malazan book of the fallen so far. I was impressed, now I'm just wordless.
