Finished reading: Orb Sceptre Throne by Ian C. Esslemont 📚

I really enjoyed this one. Loved the deeper look at the Seguleh and the Moranth. I found the climax to be a bit of a mess, though, and was disappointed. It was wacky when it shouldn’t have been, and while I love a good all-storylines-converge ending, it felt forced and coincidental. Still, one of my favorite Malazan novels so far. I’m moving directly on to the next in the series, since there are so many characters and locations to keep straight.

On a side note, I got some bookshop.org gift cards for Christmas, and it turns out, those can only be redeemed for physical books, so I ended up with the last 3 books in the Novels of the Malazan Empire in paperback, which is fine except (a) I have everything else as ebooks, and (b) shelf space is at a premium these days. But man, these books are gorgeous and I kind of want to backfill the rest now. Which means some other books are going to have to go, and that is never fun.