It works and was certainly necessary to hold the reader’s attention in a novel so dense. This well thought-out structuring of the narrative serves to focus on different aspects of the story one at a time rather than getting lost in a jumble of different narratives from the off. The book is split into four separate parts with a fifth section working to bring all the introduced plot threads into a symbiotic conclusion. What results is a very engaging first part of what looks to be a promising trilogy. This having been said, the narrative retains focus, with a few ‘core’ characters coming to prominence that dominate the course of the plot in a book that refuses to get lost in its own world-building. The scope is wide, the details complex, the characters numerous, and each of these aspects contribute greatly to its sense of scale. Scott Bakker (in a style reminiscent of Steven Eriksson’s Malazan series) presents us with a vast world that is undeniably epic in scope and proceeds to thrusts our heads into its mind-numbing magnitude with abandon.
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