Memories of Ice (Book 3 of The Malazan Book of the Fallen)

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Detoran is Hedge-sexual. She does drag someone else into the bushes at one point but it's implied to be out of frustration because Hedge keeps running away from her affections; said affections being that she's in the habit of beating Hedge senseless and THEN dragging him into the bushes.

This book definitely hits the high point of the series so far - the sophistication of the plot and the elegance of the writing both establish that clearly. In this book, the investment that the reader is asked to make in the first two books finally reaches its pay-off, and it is a massive one. There are heroic moments of awesome, and tragic, heart-wrenching losses. This is not a story for the faint of heart. Un Impero di stampo religioso, folle ed estremista, che vive di massacri, magia nera e cannibalismo. Una minaccia che lascia presagire qualcosa di peggiore alle sue spalle, tanto da forzare un’alleanza incredibile tra i vecchi nemici. Badass Army: The Malazans (and especially the Bridgeburners) are a match for ten times their numbers, unless The Worf Effect calls for a new enemy to kill a few thousand of them.That is for me to decide, for I exist to command them. To command them all. My birth proclaimed the Gathering – a demand that every T’lan Imass on this world has heard. And now, those who are able, are coming. They are coming.” E in contemporanea abbiamo il ritorno in scena di Toc il Giovane, che si ritrova insieme al T’lan Imass Tool, alla divina Lady Envy, a tre Seguleh e a due maestose bestie. Toc che adesso ha dentro di sé lo spirito di un antico Dio bestiale, alla perenne ricerca della sua compagna. The Mhybe—Tattersail, Bellurdan, and Nightchill's host Silverfox's mother—ages rapidly and thinks herself ruined when Silverfox appears not to love her, but Kruppe persuades them to reconcile in the end after Silverfox with Kruppe's help prepares the warren of Tellann—seeded to fertility with Itkovian's memories of the pain of the T’lan Imass who gather to Silverfox’s call—to receive Togg and Fanderay as lords of the Beast Hold.

Just as readers of Malazan Book of the Fallen need to fashion armour for their hearts. Preferably in adamantium or vibranium. (Oh sorry, wrong series/genre.) If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil." – Tim O'BrienIn questo libro abbiamo la storia relativa al libro stesso, abbiamo notizie importanti sulla storia del mondo, ci riallacciamo ai due libri precedenti, e vediamo nascere (o proseguire) trame che si compiranno realmente solo in futuro. Three years after the fall of the Crippled God, the nations of Jacuruku and Korelri have been nearly destroyed by firestorms resulting from the fall. K'rul walks the land listening to the screams of pain coming from the Crippled God.