Toll the Hounds
(Malazan #8)
by Steven Erikson
fantasy, fansonly
copyright 2008
opened in January 2016
rated 4/10: bad but could be read ?
Miserable. Sick. Horrible. Impossible to understand. And that's just the introduction.
The first two pages of chapter one introduced a swag of negative characters. Nothing at all that makes me want to read more. So I stopped.
My rating is "bad but could be read" followed by a question mark. To me, it's bad. I guess that other people can read it. After all, it's book eight of a series.
To me, it's bad. My rating would be even lower -- but I feel I must make some allowance for the opinion of readers who have struggled further into this book.
And I added a second category: "fansonly". Which means, "rubbish, though fans may enjoy it." To me -- after just a few pages -- it's rubbish. Perhaps, though, there are fans who will enjoy it.
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"The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change"... per Ginger Meggs
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