Ooooohhhhh.....

[prince_eric]

Looks like Esselmont's got another book out.

I should just order this now -- I have never been a good one with the old 'saving-throw-versus-shiny' in this regard.

The fact that I'm currently working my way through the latest Malazan book isn't helping this either, methinks.....

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[prince-eric.livejournal.com]

The first one was....okay.

The writing was definitely Not Erikson, though it wasn't awful. It was interesting in that it went through the events the night that Khellanved and Dancer disappeared from the Empire, and also went through the backstory of Dasseem Ultor. Interesting from a backstory perspective, but didn't really mess much with continuity. As it was also pretty short as well (latest TPB release from Erikson clocks in at over 800 pages), I figured that it was worth seeing the next one, and if it covered some interesting bit of backstory then I'd pick it up and give it a read as well.

This book, however, appears to cover the events on the Malazan continent between Reaper's Gale and Toll the Hounds, and touches on some characters that appear in the latest release (the aforementioned Toll), so while I'll probably get it and check it out, it'll be a lot more interesting to see how Esslemont's stuff interacts with Erikson's, especially from character PoV things.