Grace’s Reviews > Midnight Tides > Status Update

The delays on this book is mostly courtesy library loans coming due and me focusing on those over this audiobook that I happen to own already. Also a vacation where ebooks are the preferred medium.

I'm in the final stretch though so should be able to get this off the list soon.

It always takes awhile for a Malazan book to take shape. This one feels different in how it is coming together though because it's something of a prologue. We already know what the end result, so to speak, is going to be. If not how we get there.

It's amazing what you can get through when you don't have a second fantasy book on a timer competing with your limited attention time.

I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting the thing that sent Trull on his path in House of Chains to happen this soon. Really thought it'd be the book's climax.

I'm glad it did because things were dragging.

My lack of progress here can be blamed on Blood Over Bright Haven putting a pause to all other things.

Also, honestly, it's taking me awhile to actually absorb and figure out what is happening. I keep having to refer to character lists to get things straight as to who is who and where and why and how. Rewarding, but slow going.

Also, it's a 960 page book. It be long.

And once again Erikson throws me into the middle of something completely blind and with no idea what the heck is going on. Though at least this time I recognize one of the characters. But not the context of the time period.

That I had to look up before I started to get what I'm looking at.