![]() ![]() ![]() I fell asleep not once, not twice, but several times on his POV. Not only that, the new POV, Onrack, is hands down one of the most boring POV I’ve ever had in my experience of reading a book. After all the mention of her name in Deadhouse Gates, turns out she’s one of the weakest characters out of Erikson’s gazillion characters. The majority of the characters were uninteresting and Erikson’s prose here wasn’t as engaging as the previous three books. My main issues with this book lie with the story being uninteresting and mostly boring to read. I don’t have a lot of things to say here. In fact, this was a struggle for me to finish. However, this isn’t a masterpiece like Memories of Ice. This means that a lot of familiar faces do make a return as the story continues in the Seven Cities after the end of Deadhouse Gates at the same time connecting the story to what happened in Memories of Ice and beyond. Just like how the plot line in Memories of Ice serves as a direct sequel to Gardens of the Moon, House of Chains serves as a direct sequel to Deadhouse Gates. The other great stuff that happened in this book was the development that was put to the world-building and the returning characters that appeared in the first book. These correlation didn’t happen a lot of times but every time it did, the scenes were always golden quality. Other than Karsa, the great thing about this book to me was every time the book relates the story to what happened in Memories of Ice. However, Karsa ended up being one of my favorite parts of the book because of his spectacular character development and how pivotal he became to the overall story. This made for an awkward start because at first the story didn’t feel like reading the same series and Karsa took a while to warm up to due to his primitive and savage culture. Unlike the previous three books, House of Chains started as a totally character-driven book that focuses solely on a completely new character, Karsa Orlong. A huge downgrade after the masterpiece in Memories of IceĮrikson started House of Chains, the fourth book in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series, in an unprecedented step. ![]()
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