Ian C Esslemont; Path to Ascendancy

[nixie]

On book two and loving this series.
From Kellanved and Dancer's first meeting, the story of their rise to power. A few familiar faces in the first book and even more in the second.

I hadn't realised how much I missed the Malaz universe.

 

[Shorewalker]

Whilst Esslemont is, IMHO, the weaker of the two writers, I'd quite honestly read something one of my cats wrote if it was set in the Malaz universe.

 

[nixie]

He is the weaker of the two authors, I don't go through the same roller coaster of emotions as I do with Erikson. Although Kellanved in his previous guise of Wu is superb.

 

[nixie]

Third book has now been released, I can't believe I'm saying this but I'll wait for the paperback. I refuse to pay £20 for a hardback with less than 400 pages.

 

[elvet]

Apparently there is more to come in this series.
The Jhistal will be the fourth book.

 

[nixie]

Apparently there is more to come in this series.
The Jhistal will be the fourth book.

That is good news.

 

[nixie]

@elvet have you any idea on release date for The Jhistal? It was supposed to be Nov 20.

 

[elvet]

@elvet have you any idea on release date for The Jhistal? It was supposed to be Nov 20.

All I could find was a blurb on Reddit that the Nov 20 was tentative, and it has been delayed.

 

[nixie]

Tried to find some info on The Jhistal, no further updates.

 

[AE35Unit]

Who? Not heard of this author.

 

[worldofmutes]

Haha, I am trying to remember my pw on the malazan forums…
The series is brilliant, I have yet to read them all, or any Esslemont.

 

[nixie]

Think I've read all books by both Authors set in The Malazan Empire.

 

[AE35Unit]

Pw?, malazan? I'm lost lol Must be high fantasy

 

[nixie]

Pw?, malazan? I'm lost lol Must be high fantasy

Steven Erikson introduced us to The Malazan Empire with his 10 book epic Malazan book of the fallen. Starting with Gardens of the Moon.

Esslemont has written a number of books set in the same world.

I can't earmark it into a category, military, high, grimdark, epic, sword and sorcery etc, it has a lot of elements of all of them.

A word of warning you either love it or hate it, no in-between. A lot of people struggle, finding it confusion, can feel like your dropped in the middle of a story with no real idea what is going on.
I liked the fast pace and went with the flow.

 

[AE35Unit]

The problem with fantasy is they tend to come in multi volume series, which is great if you can get hold of them.