Tag: fiction

Rating:

I was waiting for this book since the first announcement of the Witness trilogy. And I was not disappointed. This is not a beautiful book. But when I want to read something beautiful I go and read about Anne Shirley*. The story is a lot simpler than the Malazan Book of the Fallen. The world of Malaz has changed. We can taste it in the kelyk. We can see it in the brand new characters staring at us from the pages. Still, the book feels very familiar because the old stories, places, and characters are mentioned in small remarks and the new grows on strong roots of what was. This novel mixes fun and tragedy in balance. As usual, the characters have to make extremely hard and complicated decisions and the plot does not revolve around black and white winning heroes and losing evil lords. Philosophy that provides food for thought does not fail to fill a few decent pages.