/lit/ - Literature

>>22090636
Volume 7 was the end of the golden era of TWI. Volume 8 is brutal in comparison, the stakes gets exponentially bigger and it just keeps going and going and going...Not that's it's BAD bad, it's still miles ahead of most of the fantasy you will ever read, but volume 8 in general was a mistake at work. In my opinion, at least. Some chapters are among the best in the story, though, pure diamonds.
Alas, the story suffers gretly from what you've noticed, don't expect characters to die, basically never. But if you adjust your expectations for that TWI is fucking great.

Thankfuly, Volume 9 is back to the form, for better or worse.

>>20894684
You've arrived there way faster than I thought. As you are almost at the end, how was Volume 7 for you? Assassin run, Saliss chapters etc. What did you think about the (in)famous scene with Flos and Rasea's ship?

As for the 7.61 stuff... When Pirateaba was writing the chapter, near the end he shut down the stream and told the chat his internet shut down and he's going to finish it offline. It was a lie, of course.

The final stretch of Volume 7 is fucking wild, big stuff happening, stuff beyond your comprehension. I personally liked this outcome, it was foreshadowed in the story a lot with Erin doing batshit crazy stuff and almost dying, never wearing protective artifacts...the bill had come due. Not it's the time for reaping.


Damn, I re-read 7.61 and 7.62 because you mentioned them and it hit particularly hard today because my dog was poisoned to death just a few hours ago, fuck.

>>20611930
>I am literally obsessed with the concepts of God's and spiritual beings. I read so much mythology just to read about Gods (i.e, Iliad, Paradise Lost, Keats Hypeion, Prometheus Unbound) and especially loved Tolkien's Valar because they were like, primeval gods that had a raiment based off of their status. Like Varda was basically made out of light and stars, similar to the Greek Titans and primordials.
>The concept fascinates me, and Malazan seems to be the only book that includes Gods on the scale I like in fantasy. I'm going to read Prince of Nothing but I expect I won't get any divine powers.
>Angel, Faë and all that spiritual primeval elemental shit gets my dick harder than diamonds. I like stories where it's entirely gods and angels like Paradise Lost, or where they fuck with mortals and involve themselves in human affairs like Malazan.
My friend, you may unironically be interested in The Wandering Inn, a story in which the main characters gets isekaied to a world where Gods are dead...and they are trying very hard to come back..

If you are interested, [Big Spoilers for the plot] there are also Fae, Angels, Devils and other races commonly associated with the divines. However, this stuff has its periodic appearances in the plot from time to time, until later volumes where it becomes truly the main plot and everything more or less resolves around Dead Gods trying to will themselves back to live. It's absolute kino. Gods in TWI truly feel divine and mysterious, not just some cliche people with superpowers like in other stories.

Even more spoilers, the story also includes a race of Ant people created by a Sleeping God deep underground, who have tried to kill the said God for the last few thousand years, sending a crusade after crusade to storm Hell itself. Absolutely metal.