The Crippled God

10 books, 9962 pages, 6 months.

But these are only number and don't reflect what I felt reading the Malazan book of the fallen. The depth I need in every books I read, was in the ten thick books.

This is not an easy story, neither the most complex one, but it's one of the most sincere I've ever read. When I started it with The gardens of the moon, I've never thought I'ld read such empathy, compassion, tragedy, social essays, human essays, philosophical passages...
It was way more than fantasy books. It was indeed epic and grandiose sometimes, but it wasn't the point of what Steven Erikson wanted to write. I can't compare with any other fantasy books because it's such a unique series, you'll never find another similar series.

The themes are powerful, you go through every forms of love, grief, you feel like a father, like a mother, like a child, like a sister, like a brother, like a soldier, a commander, a betrayer, a murderer, a friend, a lover ... through all the povs and that's what I enjoy about reading: having a pov I've never/ won't feel or live, and Erikson put a lot of efforts in building these povs and make me feel like them. I lived the struggle with the characters. I lived the death of some characters like I knew them. I felt the dryness of the desert. I felt the hunger of children. I felt the harshness of life. I felt injustice.

The diversity of the characters is so realistic, from different skin colour people to autistic persons, without forgetting the 300 000 old living people (not realistic but ... you'll get an idea when reading the wise (?) words of the T'lan Imass