Finished reading: Blood and Bone by Ian C. Esslemont 📚

I am honestly not sure how I felt about this book at all. Parts of it, I absolutely loved. Some really great characterization, fun banter, cool set pieces. The lore was fascinating, and some passages were genuinely chilling. It was set in a part of the #malazan world we hadn’t seen before, and I really appreciated a lot of the detail.

That said, the ending was so confusing I had to read chapter summaries in the wiki and consult Reddit to understand what the fuck actually happened. I’d say part of that was my fault for reading late at night while dealing with insomnia, but there are a lot of Reddit posts that suggest maybe it wasn’t just me.

I will cop to making a bad decision in treating these novels as interstitial to the Malazan Book of the Fallen. They’re their own series, and I should have been reading them that way, so part of my befuddlement is my own doing.

On to Assail!