General Antony
Vyemm Raider
I just started reading the first book, Gardens of the Moon. About 25% in and I feel like I have no idea what is going on. Is this normal? Does the story become more coherent?
I have read a ton of huge epic series, SOIAF, WoT etc and i have the same problem. They toss you in the middle and you have no idea what is going on. I have tried to do this series like 5x now and I can't get very far before I just kinda lose interest because of it.I just started reading the first book, Gardens of the Moon. About 25% in and I feel like I have no idea what is going on. Is this normal? Does the story become more coherent?
It's somewhat normal. Someone at the old FoH board years ago compared it to A Song of Ice and Fire, but instead of starting slow from the perspective of the Starks where many things are spelled out for you from the start and you get to see bad things happen from their perspective to build the story, the Malazan series literally dumps you into the middle of an active war and the surrounding chaos as if the series started at the Battle of the Blackwater. Most of the first book can come across as overwhelming but by the end things should start to come together somewhat. Not everything is explained in the first book and a lot of the things that happen and much of the mystery/history that is introduced is further explained in the proceeding novels. Most people find the first book the hardest to understand because of this and if you don't read slowly or carefully the confusion could be laid on extra thick.I just started reading the first book, Gardens of the Moon. About 25% in and I feel like I have no idea what is going on. Is this normal? Does the story become more coherent?
No, it doesn't. Some of the storylines are much easier to follow, but in terms of the complete thing, a large number of people still weren't sure what had happened immediately after reading the last book.I just started reading the first book, Gardens of the Moon. About 25% in and I feel like I have no idea what is going on. Is this normal? Does the story become more coherent?
The malazan marines are about the only characters you should care about.I got halfway through book two and just never picked it back up again. Too much shit, with two many characters, and you don't know them enough to give a shit about several of the storylines.
The Chain of Dogs story line is a masterpiece. I haven't finished the series yet since I started GoT, but that whole part of the book was incredible.I slogged through the first book, then when I got to the Chain of Dogs storyline, I was sold on the series.