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I would give the first half of Midnight Tides a 4 out of 5 stars. However, I'd give the second half a 6 out of 5 so I guess I can settle at a 5-star rating.

Steven Erikson has the uncanny ability to make me care about characters and their circumstances in a relatively short amount of time. He has done this three times now. Midnight Tides begins - again - with an entirely new set of faces (except one), and a new continent. New people, a new place, new conflict. Like before, it threw me off. It even caused some initial disinterest, after having read about characters whom I love in the entire previous book. But then, like before, I was wrapped up in the story and perhaps grew even more invested in these characters than the ones from previous installments. Midnight Tides is a book that (with a few minor changes) could have worked as its own Fantasy stand-alone, and worked incredibly well I might add. That is how good it is. And yet this is just a piece of the epic saga Erikson is telling.

I'm officially at the halfway mark now. And if the previous five books were any indication, I have a long and magical road ahead of me.

amorasad's review against another edition

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4.0

Splendid! I was curious and amusingly so in a mild playful manner to see a tale so distant from the chronology and how would Erikson go about it making it feel entitled, relevant and right at home. This book is a successor of Gardens of the moon (even though the events that took place in here are supposedly before gotm's time), in a sense that it also begins anew with its jarring, narratives with no ties to anything whatsoever. One can indeed start with this one before gotm and proceed with the series later on without having to suffer a sense of inconsistency. Although a malazan reader shouldn’t be surprised at having to be introduced to a book almost entirely alien to the franchise, neither they should relive the shock of reading gotm for the first time, that doesn’t make it any better or worse than gotm. In fact, I'd say it matches the greatness of gotm in a similar fashion and even more so as a single title.

pavram's review against another edition

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4.0

Čini mi se da nije toliko problem u Malazanu - teško mogu da zamislim deo bez x na n-ti broja novih likova, nepovezanih dešavanja i (za sad) nerazjašnjenih pitanja - koliko u meni. Ovaj put. Prosto nisam bio raspoložen, i iako vidim kvalitet i veličinu i neke gotovo pa drage likove, jedva sam čekao da završim, samo kako bih prešao na nešto drugo.

Ukratko, serijal koji zahteva povremenu (dužu) pauzu.

p.s. jedna konkretna mana: Erikson je onaj čova što misli da je veltšmerc religija i kome fotelja služi isključivo da opiči po nekoj tinejdž filozofiji. Treba urednik da mu lupi šamar i kaže 'obuzdaj se, čoveče', jer uglavnom (ali ne uvek) su te stranice i stranice i stranice stravično naporne i pomalo mučne.

4-

kornspitz's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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