This is the last in the cycle of the Malazan Book of the Fallen. For a long cycle it has one of the most complete and satisfying endings out there. I laughed out loud whilst reading alone and I cheered at least once. It is a very good ending to an epic story.
Erikson has not made the mistake of people like G R R Martin and Robert Jordan in coming to a story without knowing the ending and then struggling to get there over ever increasing numbers of 'filler' books. That is perhaps unkind (or at least could be perceived so) about those authors, but take Jordan, whose Wheel of Time series was supposed to only be 4 books when it started...then 7...then 10 and now 14.
Erikson avoids many of the normal clichés and you never feel he's written himself into a hole. There remain a couple of mysteries I would have liked resolved (I'm looking at your conversation with Mother Dark mister high mage) but that's just me. Overall I loved this and read it in a week of late nights.
If you've not read the previous 9? Well I'd suggest you go find Gardens of the Moon and get cracking. At 3.5 million words it's going to take you a while.
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