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Toll The Hounds - Steven Erikson
This is book 8 of the Malazan Book of The Fallen Series.
I love the series but in my opinion Erikson has a real issue with the Tiste races, they are really boring for the initial part of any book they are in. They are just old and bored and it comes out in the way he writes them, they just kind of wander about regretting what theyve done in the past.
They generally become better as each book goes no and then those books become some of my favourites (reapers gale)but god those initial chapters are bad. I know the series is finished but he should have realised this and put some of the boring chapters (rake, seer domin) next to the more fun Daru chapters, he could have split them better later.
Thankfully I am getting to the bit where they are actually doing something now.
Ive read book one of four, average so far