A review by amorasad
Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson

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.