Other characters may go further, to death and back even, but none is as sharply portrayed. Paran travels on journeys of body and soul, going from innocent to hardened rebel against gods and empire without losing his moral core.
Jumping often between plot lines, the novel follows Ganoes Stabro Paran from his boyhood dreaming of soldiers to his escape from imperial service. Perhaps they need to stay small enough for the reader to keep them all in mind.
In this sprawling fantasy epic of the Malazan empire at war with its enemies and itself, the first of a projected 10-volume series, Canadian newcomer Erikson offers many larger-than-life scenes and ideas, but his characters seem to shrink to fit the story.
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