Toll the Hounds

by Steven Erikson

Unknown Binding

Published May 19, 2009

About the author

Steven Erikson is the pseudonym of Steve Rune Lundin, a Canadian novelist, who was educated and trained as both an archaeologist and anthropologist. His best-known work is the series, the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/steven...

Reviews

[Spencer Ellsworth]

More like 3.5 I was a little relieved to see that other readers found this a low point of the series. I really enjoyed going back to the Darujhistan characters, and I found Murillio, Crokus, Chalice, Kruppe and the whole gang to be the most interesting of all the storylines, which is to say that I didn't really follow Nimander's story.

And because of that, the ending was a little bit... off. I am rereading Part 4 in print because audio just doesn't do a great job of communicating the dense interactions of characters and the world. Crucial characters like Kallor show back up, there's a whole plot around the Lord of Death, and yet just about everything outside of Darujhistan fell flat for me.

However, if you read this series like I do, and you choose a set of characters to follow and ignore other ones out of necessity, and you choose the Darujhistan characters, it will be a fun and exciting follow-up to parts 2-4 of Gardens of the Moon.