I was eagerly anticipating the latest installment of the Malazan Book Of The Fallen by Steven Erikson. I’d enjoyed the first… Five I’d say very much. The sixth one was all about people in the past who we had no connection with and I simply didn’t care and didn’t read it. Maybe I should have recognised the signs at that time, but I decided to give it another go and read the seventh book, which did have characters that I knew and liked from past books. So, all good there. The eighth book arrived and it featured characters we weren’t that familiar with. So, I just couldn’t care.
To add to all this, Stevie’s books have grown by 200 pages from the first installment to the eighth. I put this down to slack editing as he became more popular. His books could use cutting about 200 pages in each volume. He does go on.
But that’s neither here nor there. I can stand a bit of excess verbiage. I’ve waded through all of Robert Jordan’s books and I’ll read his posthumous one, but I have to have some characters in each book that I’ve connected with over the series. Unfortunately, Erikson goes through characyers like a madman! He kills off loads of charatcters, created literally hundreds over the series. I can’t bring myself to care about most of them.
So, I’ve had it. No more reading of this series.
Another author I’ve lost patience with is George R. R. Martin… Will he bring out another book before he dies? He doesn’t look healthy and he’s not a spring chicken. It’s been nigh on three years. If he continues at this pace, then we won’t see the end of his series until 2020. He won’t make it until then!
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