Nick Tankard
10/10
Haven't read it in English but it's my favorite Russian book. Absolutely genius.
4/10
The stories are pretty boring and pointless. The characters are bland and uninteresting.
The last wish story itself is probably the best one but the ending is questionable.
Most of all the writing is terrible. But that might be because of the translation. It's really hard to read.
Overall it was just ok. I hope the next books in the series will have more character development and better writing.
4/10
The Malazan borefest continues.
As usual, everyone is a freaking philosopher and a master wordsmith ready to spew out seemingly profound wisdom at a moment's notice. Thus making the dialog and inner monologue very pretentious and tiresome to read. And on top of that, I did not care about a single character. And there is Kruppe, whom I hated and wanted to die a very slow and painful death. Kruppe absolutely sucks.
Similar to the previous two books, the plot is very disjointed and confusing. I still have no idea what is going on in this series. What is the point of it all? Other than spamming the word “compassion” a hundred times.
Despite the lower rating, I don't think this book is worse than the previous two. I just got very tired of Erikson's tedious writing and style of storytelling. And it was so unnecessary long.
Probably it's time to call it quits with Malazan. It's just not worth it with those massive door stoppers and no indication of any improvements. If I ever run out of better fantasy to read, I might return to this series.
9/10
Reamde combines typical Stephenson ramblings on tech and economics with explosive action, great plot and cool characters. An excellent technothriller!
