Malazan Book of the Fallen · Book 5

Midnight Tides

by Steven Erikson

Published
1 March 2004
Pages
631
ISBN-13
9781429926935
Type
novel

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Cover of Midnight Tides

About this book

Midnight Tides, published in March 2004 at 631 pages, is notably shorter than House of Chains before it, the fifth entry in a series famous for withholding exposition and demanding real patience -- traits that ease, without disappearing, as the sequence progresses.

Its place in Malazan Book of the Fallen

Midnight Tides is book 5 in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. It follows House of Chains. It is followed by The Bonehunters. See the full Malazan Book of the Fallen reading order.

The Malazan Empire has spent a century conquering a continent through sorcery, siege warfare and the ascension of its soldiers to godhood, and the empire's oldest, most battle-worn armies are starting to wonder whether the throne they fight for still deserves their loyalty. Steven Erikson opens Gardens of the Moon in the middle of an already-vast, already-old world, with no orientation and no apology, and asks readers to catch up — gods walk among mortals and scheme like politicians, ten-thousand-year-old empires…

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