Toll the Hounds

Its place in Malazan Book of the Fallen

Toll the Hounds is book 8 in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. It follows Reaper's Gale. It is followed by Dust of Dreams. 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…