Duncan Starks’s Reviews > Deadhouse Gates > Status Update

This book is so fucking confusing. It’s like really good in the moments it being really confusing. I don’t know if it’s just a skill issue or what but I struggle with it fairly frequently. The themes, environment, magic, and lore are all very interesting if not very overwhelming, and by god there are so many characters. What are you gonna do lol. Got myself into this shit. It is good though.

Progress is slow on this with Stormlight in the mix, but the small amount I have made I’ve greatly enjoyed. Such an odd writing style yet I’m finding myself craving it more and more. Just hit Part 2 and I really enjoyed the sort of fake out ending of Part 1. We got some shit going on and I always like that. That’s all. I got for now.

So far it is still just a lot to take in. I’ve gotten a little better at understanding what is being presented in the way Erikson writes it, but overall still quite confounding. I do still enjoy it and I’m starting to really like these new characters that have been introduced. I am excited to see what is going to happen as the go farther a long the path of the hand I think? Good enough.

Still getting whatever bearings there are to be had, but Coltaine is sick as fuck dude. This guy is what I want from the series. That being, sick ass dialogue.