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A review by projectmemo
Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson
3.5
This is the longest book in the Malazan series with a whopping 389k words; but more surprising is the fact that it is only 7k words longer than Reaper's Gale because this one felt like triple the lenght... in a bad way.
Now, this is an extrememly hard book to rate, there are moments and whole storylines that I genuinely think are among the best in the series, but there are a couple that almost literally put me to sleep. And the book being 1200 pages only exacerbated this issue. There were times when I came dangerously close to dropping the book but thankfully, those other plotlines helped me power through it and thank god because the ending was soo worth it.
Now, this is an extrememly hard book to rate, there are moments and whole storylines that I genuinely think are among the best in the series, but there are a couple that almost literally put me to sleep. And the book being 1200 pages only exacerbated this issue. There were times when I came dangerously close to dropping the book but thankfully, those other plotlines helped me power through it and thank god because the ending was soo worth it.