Deadhouse Gates (Book 2 of The Malazan Book of the Fallen)

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I can guarantee that you’ll look forward to seeing this guy get his just desserts from the moment you meet him; but while justice is sweet indeed, be warned that you’ll have to wait until later in the series to witness it.

Kalam reaches Laseen's audience chamber where she's concealed, as he accuses her of killing the Bridgeburners deliberately (she denies it), outlawing Dujek (it's a ruse), killing Dassem Ultor (true but he threatened civil war), killing Dancer and Kellenvad (true but the Empire required it), and incompetence in the Seven Cities (revenge is afoot); he leaves after hearing her defense. One of the three tribes facing the Chain attacks the other two and Dom’s army, defeating the tribes but not the army, but declares the Wickans the most powerful after they survive the multiway fight around them.Coltaine refuses the nobles’ entreaty to retake Ubaryd; Duiker believes that it’s because the approaching Korbolo Dom is an experienced general and greater threat, whereas Kamist Reloe was merely a mage. After leaving the city they meet a mage who identifies himself as Nawahl Ebur but turns out to be the D'ivers Gryllen. Fiddler meets a Tano Spiritwalker who offers a song of power that may grant ascension to the Bridgeburners whom he believes fought honorably in their empire’s dishonorable war to take Seven Cities. Deadhouse Gates draws our attention across the sea, to the continent of Seven Cities – which was strongly hinted at throughout GotM as being on the cusp of rebellion.

The Malazan Book of the Fallen — (1999-2011) Publisher: The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations.Meanwhile, the assassin Kalam embarks on a dangerous mission and a group of travellers from Genabackis arrive in Seven Cities on their own mysterious errands. And good ol’ Bult, with his mangled face and crude-but-loveable manner, is right behind his beloved clan leader every step of the way. That may well have something to do with the fact that he doesn’t take shit from anyone – including his superiors – and that he’s never afraid to share his opinion.

Like all such weak, noble-born rulers with no idea what to do with their power and privilege, Pormqual surrounds himself with individuals who he can trust to help him make wise decisions tell him all the things he wants to hear. As Fiddler, Crokus, and Apsalar travel separately through Raraku, Apsalar's memories gradually confirm that the Rope, the patron god of assassins, who possessed her as Sorry, was the previous Emperor Kellanved's assassin Dancer, and that Kellenvad and Dancer must have escaped Laseen's assassination efforts by ascending to godhood over the new Warren and House of Shadow. The first United States edition was published in hardback by Tor Books on 28 February 2005 with a mass-market paperback edition following on 7 February 2006. Icarium tells Mappo to let the house have him if it takes him, even though it would mean eternal imprisonment.Pust tells Icarium and Mappo that Sha’ik will be resurrected, as an enormous wall of deadly whirling sand surrounds Raraku and the winds within reveal buried roads, structures, and evidence that the desert was once coastal. When she isn’t working on a manuscript or writing for the Hive, you're most likely to find her on Twitter, playing Dragon Age, or hoarding polyhedral dice.