Maxwell Volume rated Gardens of the Moon: 4 stars

Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
Vast legions of gods, mages, humans, dragons and all manner of creatures play out the fate of the Malazan Empire …
Musician & lapsed fiction writer. I grew up on a healthy diet of visionary, experimental and new wave fiction - Moorcock, Carter, Peake, Sinclair, Burroughs, Joyce, Ballard etc (most of which has heavily influenced my music). Nowadays my reading tastes float freely between literary, fantasy, philosophy and (nowadays quite a bit of) nature writing.
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Vast legions of gods, mages, humans, dragons and all manner of creatures play out the fate of the Malazan Empire …

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I'd be very surprised if this book isn't my favourite book of the year - even though it was the first book I read this year.
I'd be very surprised if this book isn't my favourite book of the year - even though it was the first book I read this year.

A darkly comic novel set on the lower slopes of the Los Angeles literary world.
I stepped out to …
It's been over ten years since I started reading Malazan and I rather fancy starting the whole damn thing from the beginning. Here we go!
It's been over ten years since I started reading Malazan and I rather fancy starting the whole damn thing from the beginning. Here we go!