Esslement tells much about the history of several events and explains them in reference to Assail, he goes in on many of the earlier proposed rumors surrounding it. Woolley rated it it was ok. I felt that a lot of these story arcs were interesting to follow, but in the end couldn't truly live up to some of the earlier Malazan events. Most dangerous and mysterious place in the Malazan universe, or so we've been led to believe. The plotline exploring Silverfox and the T'lan Imass is by far the least exploited. 
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Review of ‘Assail’ by Ian C. Esslemont
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The worldbuilding is always one of the key ingredients in every Malazan installment. The execution was lacking a little, but the idea was breathtaking and did lead to some brilliant moments.
The best story line is, of course, about Crimson Guard. The convergence of characters and activities on the mysterious island continent of Assail are meant to be, I believe, somewhat contemporaneous in time with Erikson's tale's in Dust of Dreams and The Crippled Godand damned if it all doesn't make sense and shine new light on some unresolved issues in Erikson's novels. Esslemont's descriptive narrative is probably as good as in any of his other novels.
In no way a fitting end to the Malazan saga, however. Esslemont and Erikson co-created the Malazan world in as a backdrop for role-playing games.
Assail is a great finisher to the Malazan Empire series that started with Qssail of Knives. No matter how anticlimactic the endgame proved to be, Esslemont closed the show on a high note.
After the big "convergence" is a decent conclusion to some of the plots from Memories of Ice. His fourth novel, Orb Sceptre Throne was published in Neither a life, nor seemingly neither a death. I thought the world building was again interesting in this book, and contrary to the prev The previous book, Blood and Bone, left me with a bit of a disappointing feeling.
Letherii, of course, seek riches and they are still assholes in spite of Tehol's attempts to change them. He has lived and worked in Southeast Asia, including four years spent in Thailand and Japan.
Esslemont really pulls all the stops when it comes down to showing the ending. But the true conclusion lies at the peak itself where still other forces are lingering.
There are many spinoffs, sequels and prequels more to write. It really doesn't matter, in my opinion, though, while I adore Anomander Rake, I feel his ending in Toll the Hounds was perfect and the reset is not needed.
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Retrieved 23 June Apr 29, Patrick St-Denis rated it it was ok. The pace, storytelling, characters are superb. Not drawn by contract, but by the promise of answers: In they collaborated on a feature film script set in the same world, entitled Gardens of the Moon.
Every time Fisher mentioned them i got excited because they were the brilliantly written bad guys from Eriksons series and i foolishly believed an army of them would show up at the end to wreak havoc. Let the legendary dead stay dead. We know they're going to survive. The Pulp Jungle 4 years ago. Also heading north, as part of an uneasy alliance of Malazan fortune-hunters and Letherii soldiery, comes the bard Fisher kel Tath.
We are talking about a continent which the Emperor and Dancer steered clear of, for it was deemed too dangerous. But one thing has always made people abandon even the most dangerous premises and that is the promise of riches and untold fortunes.
The vast majority of this book is set in Assail, a mysterious land that we have heard a lot about but have never really seen before. The wondering about which character it was. Partially this was also linked to the fact that few of the characters really stood out for me.
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