After decades of internecine warfare, the tribes of the Tiste Edur have at last united under the Warlock King of the Hiroth. There is peace - but it has been exacted at a terrible price: a pact made with a hidden power whose motives are at best suspect, at worst, deadly.

To the south, the expansionist kingdom of Lether, eager to fulfill its long-prophesized renaissance as an Empire reborn, has enslved all its less-civilized neighbors with rapacious hunger. All, that is, save one - the Tiste Edur. And it must be only a matter of time before they too fall - either beneath the suffocating weight of gold, or by slaughter at the edge of a sword. Or so destiny has decreed.

Yet as the two sides gather for a pivotal treaty neither truly wants, ancient forces are awakening. For the impending struggle between these two peoples is but a pale reflection of a far more profound, primal battle - a confrontation with the still-raw wound of an old betrayal and the craving for revenge at its seething heart.

"This novel and all others in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series follow my own pronunciations of 'Malazan' words and names. My thanks to Michael and Jane and everyone at Brilliance Audio." -Steven Erikson, Victoria, B.C. Canada, January, 2014

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Listening Length	31 hours and 4 minutes
Author	Steven Erikson
Narrator	Michael Page
Audible.ca Release Date	January 31 2014
Publisher	Brilliance Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
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Language	English
ASIN	B071F73G3Q
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stevenhorr

Even Better Than the First Four Books

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 31, 2021

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Other fans of this series may not agree, but I have found every book thus far to be more enjoyable and compulsively readable than the one before. Memories of Ice, especially during the latter half, is when I became entirely consumed by the story. I found House of Chains to be even more well-written and engaging. And Midnight Tides was the best yet. This book is so superbly crafted that every conversation is a joy. It is also laugh out loud funny in parts, devastating (of course) in parts, and just an absolutely riveting, compelling, imaginative, meticulously plotted (albeit confusing at times) masterpiece of fantasy fiction. I am just about to crack open The Bonehunters (book 6) and am 100% committed to reading this incredibly vast, emotionally fulfilling, and brilliantly composed series to its completion.

Don't start here, though. Read the previous four books first. If you are not hooked by the latter half of MoI, the Malazan series might not be for you. But as I have said, it just seems to get better and better as you proceed.

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Ryan L

Great

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 6, 2022

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Book arrived quick and in great condition (as advertised).

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Ian

One of the best in the series

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 28, 2019

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The series takes a turn in this book and it is a good one. Don't let the mostly new setting and cast of characters deter you, the story is rich and full of depth.

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Sébastien Parent-Charette

Great book!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 16, 2021

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Great book!

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Patrick Chamberland

Très bonne qualité

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 1, 2020

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Excellente qualité pour un produit usagé

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Loved it

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 9, 2019

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This series is slowly becoming one of my favorites. Im on book#5 and I cant stop reading. Definitely one of my fave authors now.

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Awesome

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 19, 2016

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Amazing the threads this series creates and weaves together. The side stories that encompass an entire novel just add to the richness of the world and main storyline. The first book or so can feel a bit like drowning, but I'm happily swimming along the currents now!

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Lee Van Adel

Lack of sleep here i come!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 13, 2014

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Although the style is a little... simple, I find the world and the portrayal of the characters to be intensely engaging. It is no Wheel of Time but I just cannot put this down, definitely a great read and well worth recommending.

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nicolocin

Bloat, to little effect

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 21, 2018

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This is the weakest of the Malazan books up to this point. By far. Only Eriksen's abilities as a writer got me through it. But his writing qualities can't disguise the fact that in nearly 1000 pages very little happens. There are three or four battles, but since each of them is glossed over in a page or two it hardly matters. I was expecting the tedious approach of the Tiste Edur armies to at least culminate in the sort of confrontation we had at the end of Memories of Ice, but no, it was a damp squib. Then I was expecting the imminent re-emergence of Silchas Ruin to have some impact, but he just slunk away. What was good was the description of Letheras and particularly Bugg and Tehol. The Letherii were far more interesting than the boring Tiste Edur, for all that Eriksen seemed to liken them to Sodom and Gomorrah combined, perhaps revealing his own political prejudices.

Eriksen has always been verbose, but bloating has begun to hear it's head. It first appeared in Memories of Ice, with the boring, navel-gazing Mhybe subplot. It largely disappeared in House of Chains, but in Midnight Tides it's back with a vengeance. Once again we have Hamlet-lite navel-gazing, but this time it's absolutely interminable. Other traps Eriksen has fallen into is unkillable and all-knowing heroes, the Sengar clan and others. Someone should tell Eriksen that if your heroes are always right/smarter/luckier/can't die etc. then the victory has no meaning. And even when they do die they are magically healed or resurrected. When I was reading it I said to myself 'Tehol isn't dead', 'Udinaas isn't going to stay dead' because it had all become so utterly predictable.

Eriksen has fallen from a high level to one that barely reaches mediocre. I hope it's not an indication that he has peaked and is going downhill.

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James Tivendale

In Letharas, prior to the action of the series so far... this was happening...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 31, 2016

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I thought it was strange that the fifth book in a series should only contain one character that had been in any of the prior four books. Loving so many of the characters prevalent in the previous books I wanted to see what they were up to. However, upon completing Midnight Tides I am still in awe with Erikson, his style, substance and the stories that are being weaved. Every title he has written in this series I struggle to comprehend how they get better than the previous books..

The plot is about two local communities and we get a great omnipotent perspective provided mostly as a tale of two families. Sengar (Tiste Edur) & Beddict (The Letherii). The relationships between the brothers on both sides is intriguing. Two races that have not been interpreted to any great degree prior to this book yet I imagine what has happened here is pivotal to the overall consequences of the series. Some of the scenes are amazing. The Sengar brothers fighting Soltaken wolves to find a requested prize on fields of ice, the meeting of the two factions are the Letherii throne & Kettle finally meeting Silchas Ruin. Additionally I liked the complexity of Rhulad and his relationship with his servant. (I don't consider these to be spoilers hence why I put them here :) ) Once again, Gods are in the mix of the action like the Aenied and the Iliad. I believe what makes this series stand out is its originality. I like a lot of fantasy novels but a lot of them are re-jigging Tolkien or what has come before. The world, races and epic-ness depicted here is astronomical and I truly believe I will not be able to enjoy fantasy books to this degree after this series as I know its quality cannot (or would be highly unlikely that it will) be replicated.

I loved Tehol & Bugg's relationship. I imagined a sort of Blackadder/ Baldrick scenario with the 'manservant' however being cleverer than he made out. Bugg was always too busy to work. Hmmm.

I cannot wait to read the next book. A lot of what I said in my positive review of House Of Chains could be placed here but I do not wish to repeat. If you have got this far in the series, you know it is amazing and reviews are pointless. Carry on, enjoy it. I can't wait to see how everything weaves it's way together, culminates and finalises. Peace x [...]

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Fleecy Moss

A bit of a pause perhaps?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 5, 2017

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And so book 5 of the Malazan House of the Fallen passes on by.

I don't know. Perhaps it's because I've become so used to the superb writing style, twisting plot-line, highly individual characters, and smirk inducing humour but I found this book was more a pause, a respite on a plateau that I hope isn't a prelude to a descent.

Be under no illusion: this is still a wonderful book. I just found the Tiste Edur part, including the foray to pick up the <spoiler> a bit dragged out. I loved the character who lives on the roof, his wonderful servant (reminded me of the servant in Iain M Bank's Matter), and all of the characters in the Letherii capital. The slow burn introduction and possible future link up with the the Children of Shadow and the Azath house provided a necessary and comforting link to the rest of the series.

Maybe I'm being unfair. I still loved the book and had started the sixth within minutes of finishing this one. I just had a deja vu of the middle few books of the Wheel of Time. I hope I'm wrong but it certainly won't stop me in any shape or form from reading the entire series. Even when I feel less than wowed, this book is still a great read!

Fleecy Moss, author of the Folio 55 series (writing as Nia Sinjorina), available on Amazon.

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E. A. Banks

More of the same, and yet completely different

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 14, 2021

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Very different from the four previous books but just as enthralling. There are a lot of new characters to get used to, and some of the names are difficult to get the hang of, but I got to quite like some of them and found this a very enjoyable read. Lots of new places too. Some of the action is pretty gruesome, but I am used to that from the other novels in the series and the author still manages to inject some humour here and there. I'm looking forward to find out what happens to the survivours of this tale.

Temple Phoenix

Halftime, All Change

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 10, 2011

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Now THIS is a bold move. For the last book of the first half of the Book of the Fallen, Erikson chooses to drop the reader in at the deep end, confident by now that we can keep up with him.

So we have a new continent, new characters and a new (well, old) system of magic to get to grips with. It's a gamble that pays off.

The new Edur characters, including Trull Sengar, one of the few faces we have met before, are certainly interesting, but are not the main draw here. Tehol and Bugg are two of Erikson's finest creations, proving once and for all the writer's facility for comedy as well as, at the end, his knack for real pathos.

The plot is doomy and inexorably tragic, but be assured that even the wonders here are merely an appetizer setting the stage for a couple of books down the line...

Once again, one of the most original, well-written and thoughful books I've read. Kudos to Steven!

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