So, Erikson kicks off his sequence by setting his first volume just before the Empress Laseen usurps power. I hadn’t actually forgotten the plot in Gardens of the Moon, which I first read over two years ago, but so many things began to make sense and fall into place. I toyed with the idea of continuing on to volume 5, Midnight Tides, straight after House of Chains, but I thought I’d better take stock first. The cast of characters is huge and Erikson keeps introducing new ones in each volume. So far, in volumes 2 ( Deadhouse Gates), 3 ( Memories of Ice) and 4 ( House of Chains), we followed the different trails of the main story, all connected and set in the same time frame. I thought it was a good idea to go back and re-read Gardens of the Moon once I finished the 4th volume in Steven Erikson’s epic Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence just to refresh my memory regarding how it all began.
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