Ten years in the making more that 9000 pages the malazan books of the fallen reaches its conclusion with the crippled god the tenth book of the series.
"Savaged by the K'Chain Nah'Ruk, the Bonehunters march for Kolanse, where waits an unknown fate. Tormented by questions, the army totters on the edge of mutiny, but Adjunct Tavore will not relent. One final act remains, if it is in her power, if she can hold her army together, if the shaky allegiances she has forged can survive all that is to come. A woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, Tavore Paran of House Paran means to challenge the gods -- if her own troops don't kill her first.
Awaiting Tavore and her allies are the Forkrul Assail, the final arbiters of humanity. Drawing upon an alien power terrible in its magnitude, they seek to cleanse the world, to annihilate every human, every civilization, in order to begin anew. They welcome the coming conflagration of slaughter, for it shall be of their own devising, and it pleases them to know that, in the midst of the enemies gathering against them, there shall be betrayal. In the realm of Kurald Galain, home to the long lost city of Kharkanas, a mass of refugees stand upon the First Shore. Commanded by Yedan Derryg, the Watch, they await the breaching of Lightfall, and the coming of the Tiste Liosan. This is a war they cannot win, and they will die in the name of an empty city and a queen with no subjects.
Elsewhere, the three Elder Gods, Kilmandaros, Errastas and Sechul Lath, work to shatter the chains binding Korabas, the Otataral Dragon, and release her from her eternal prison. Once freed, she will be a force of utter devastation, and against her no mortal can stand. At the Gates of Starvald Demelain, the Azath House sealing the portal is dying. Soon will come the Eleint, and once more, there will be dragons in the world. And so, in a far away land and beneath indifferent skies, the final cataclysmic chapter in the extraordinary 'Malazan Book of the Fallen' begins."
So does the final chapter answer all the questions , does it tie off every thread of the series, do all your favorite characters appear and will you have a satifying conclusion to their stories?
The answer is no.
But does it contain the best battle scenes of any fantasy book out there , amazing characterizations , humor , heartbreaking scenes and Tufty the cat ?
The answer is YES!
Erikson has managed to write a conclusion to a monster epic that has literally a cast of hundreds and dozens of main characters and manages to keep it all together without straying too far at a rollercoaster pace.
If you want intelligent fantasy that steps out of the boundaries has no white knights no black knights hell has no knights of any color , with amazingly human characters then this series is for you.
And yes the bastard made me cry at the end fuck off....
