@Ian
I've finished Deadhouse Gates. What a fantasic read.
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The conclusion of the Chain of Dogs strand was both magnificent and horrifying. The endings for Coltaine and Duiker were properly heartbreaking.
That dickhead High Fist too, not only leaving Coltaine to die but then getting tricked into surrending his entire army to the rebels. Who then proceeded to nail all 10,000 of them to trees and leave them to die.
The Felesin stuff was prettty interesting I guess. It'll be interesting to see where that goes now, given that she's now the reborn version of the magical rebel leader and about to face off agaist her own sister, who's coming to fuck shit up in the name of the Empire. She needs to stop being a cunt to Heboric all the time though.
The only stuff that ultimately felt a bit pointless was the Kalam and Fiddler stuff. Particularly Kalam, because he just decides (I think) he doesn't want to kill the Empress anymore and then Shadowthrone (who I think is the old Emperor, who was killed by the current Empress, but now somehow reincarnated as a sort of evil God? I'm very unclear on this part of it all!) just turns up and magically transports him off to safety.
One of the things I'm most looking forward to in future books (assuming they develop it) though is the ongoing "World's Greatest Bromance" between Mappo and Icarium.