Great Novel. Moranth!! Seguleh!!!

The most intriguing aspect of the world created by Esselmont and Steven Erickson is the different peoples populating it. Barghast. Imass. Tiste, Forkrul, K'Chain. This novel has several of them including my favorites. Not bogged down by too many plot threads, this story is fantastic. Loved it. 9/10 stars.

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One of Esslemont’s Best

This is a fun book. Following Stephen Erikson’s Toll the Hounds it picks up the remaining character stories from Genebackis and wraps up most with a very satisfactory ending.
If you have not read Toll the Hounds recently I would strongly suggest it though, as otherwise a lot of the details and characters from there might be very confusing. This book really assumes you’re familiar with that story. This story takes place a few months after that, around the same time as Dust of Dreams. If you have not read Dust of Dreams yet (if you’re reading this between those two), that is ok - there is only one detail of the world that will be unexplained, but that’s to be expected for events happening across the world from each other in parallel.

My main criticism of Esslemont’s style remains (jumping around characters too much within a chapter instead of splitting chapters a little better), but overall he has improved. As well, the climax and convergence of storylines at the end more than makes up for it this time. The action sequences here are some of Esslemont’s best too.

Narration is good, although again I wish there was a little more coordination between narrators just to ensure that pronunciations are consistent (especially jarring is Kruppe’s name).

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