A review by bdesmond
Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson
5.0
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.
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.