Erikson has woven a great deal of sympathy into this epic. The characters are so well created and interact with their world so affectively, that at times its hard not to feel you're actually experiencing the often hopeless situations that they're constantly enduring. It has vision and is written on such a grande scale as to rival the Lord of the Rings itself. Deadhouse Gates isn't your conventional work of fantasy of course. Not something that I read often, but then again I have come across few fantasy novels worth reading. (The rest are reunited in Memories of Ice, the third book.) Before I go on any further, I would like to mention that this novel is pure fanatasy. Of the expansive cast that appeared in Gardens of the Moon, only Kalam, Fiddler, Apsalar and Crokus make a reappearence. (Spoiler Warning: Do not read if you haven't finished Gardens of the Moon.) It's name is the Whirlwind and it's leader is a desert prophetess known only as Sha'ik. This time the action is focused not on Genabackis, but on the continent of seven cities, where a revolt is on the verge of being unleashed against the Malazan Empire. Picking up where Gardens of the Moon left off, Deadhouse Gates reunites a host of old characters and throws some new ones into the fray. Deadhouse Gates is the second book in the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson.
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