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Forge of Darkness: The Kharkanas Trilogy 1 [Hardcover]
Steven Erikson (Author)
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This post has been edited by Miss Savage: 19 July 2012 - 02:29 PM

[mostly.harmless]

I pre-ordered that for my kindle, July 31st!
12 days left!
Crap!

[pat5150]

Spoiler

You think that GRRM's Joffrey is a bad kid?? Wait till you get a load of Envy, Spite, and their little sister Malice...

[kcf]

James Hetfield, on 19 July 2012 - 05:13 AM, said:

And KCF, how far along are you with FoD??? I really want to read a full review. Wondering if you will beat Pat to it.

Not actually that far - I'm about 250 pages in right now (total is about 650). Pat will almost certainly beat me to a review (not that it's a competition). I'm hoping to have one written around the time of the release date, but my schedule is packed, so that's far from certain.

[pat5150]

I'm about 450 pages into it... Unfortunately, I don't have that much time to read...

Patrick

[AnomanderRakeSoD]

Pat or kcf... Do we get Anomanders PoV?

[Kanese S's]

pat5150, on 19 July 2012 - 09:42 PM, said:

Spoiler

You think that GRRM's Joffrey is a bad kid?? Wait till you get a load of Envy, Spite, and their little sister Malice...

I am intrigued.

Spoiler

Are they somewhat less... mature... if you can call it that... than in the book of the fallen?

[pat5150]

No sign of Anomander's POV yet...

Spoiler

As for Envy, Spite, and Malice, I'd say much less mature, as they are really young girls as the book begins...

[S Ruin]

pat5150, on 20 July 2012 - 11:06 AM, said:

No sign of Anomander's POV yet...

Spoiler

As for Envy, Spite, and Malice, I'd say much less mature, as they are really young girls as the book begins...

Ok so Pat even though there is no POV about rake yet, is he at least featuring heavily in the book? Is he the bad ass/awesome character we know him to be or is it more like you can see the potential? I have always wondered how much of his character is influenced by the draconian blood

[End of Disc One]

So this also releases on Kindle July 31. Does anyone know if it's still possible to download this out of region if you change your address?

[Urizen]

pat5150, on 20 July 2012 - 11:06 AM, said:

No sign of Anomander's POV yet...

Spoiler

As for Envy, Spite, and Malice, I'd say much less mature, as they are really young girls as the book begins...

Spoiler

So, Who's Malice mom? Same as Envy and Spite?

[Asharak]

I second the question about Anomaders amount of appearences in the book, him and his two brothers, how much of them thus far?

[pat5150]

As far as the first 2/3 of FoD are concerned, Anomander Rake, Silchas Ruin, and Andarist don't get much "air time."

Patrick

[Raker]

It seems that Baruk was completely wrong in many parts of his "Draconean Family Tree".

[pat5150]

Why do you say that???

Patrick

[Raker]

Well, for example, Scabandari should be the grandfather of Envy and Spite. And he should have already met Tiam.
Was Father Light the Consort of Mother Dark before Draconus??

[pat5150]

There is clearly not enough information about these things at the moment, so it's hard to say just how right or wrong Baruk turned out to be. I have a feeling that a lot of "facts" were lost during the course of the millennia, which might be a way for SE to cop-out and work around some of the Malazan canon.

We will have to wait and see...

Spoiler

Yes Draconus' daughters all share the same mother and you won't believe who it is!

[AnomanderRakeSoD]

Olar ethil

[Ceda Cicero]

Thus far, Pat (and feel free to spoiler this) how do you rate it?

Perhaps both generally, and in comparison to other works by SE.

[pat5150]

So far, SE is laying A LOT of groundwork for the rest of the series. Hence, with about 150 pages left to go, I'm wondering how well FoD will stand on its own. Though epic in scope, it's not as sprawling as TMBotF. More structured, also, which at times feels a bit odd, given the style of the 10-book cycle (where everything could happen at any given moment). There is a panoply of POV characters, some working better than others.

As is usually the case with trilogies, it looks as though FoD will be a vast introduction that will serve as the opening chapter for what is to come. Still, SE knows how to cap it off in style, so I'm looking forward to the finale!

So far, it's good. Not great, but TtH kind of sucked until SE brought it to close in a mindfuckingly awesome manner. Still about 150 pages to go, so we'll have to wait and see...

Patrick