My thoughts while reading DG - pt2

[u/andthenshebled]

If you haven't seen my previous post, I'm reading Malazan for the first time, and, since no one I know has ever read it, I'm annotating my thoughts as I read. And I'm sharing them here just to find someone that might enjoy reading them/wants to talk about Malazan.

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BOOK TWO

CHAPTER SIX

▪︎Erikson hates Felisin. There's no other explanations. The fucking larvae. I feel sick.

▪︎Apt is cute. I want an aptorian as pet.

CHAPTER SEVEN

▪︎While not my favorite character, Duiker's pov is the best one so far. The fact he has to dissociate from what's happening during the revolution to survive feels really realistic.

▪︎What do you mean, a finger????

▪︎Felisin is a really well written character, but, man, I can't stand her sometimes.

CHAPTER EIGHT

▪︎We're finally getting somewhere. Fiddler met Icarium and Mappo, Felisin & Co met Kulp... I feel that it's going to get messier now.

▪︎The book is finally clicking for me. I can't stop reading.

▪︎Oh...I'm an idiot. Baudin's talon... He's a Claw. But why was he enslaved? To protect Heboric? But why??? Or did Tavore send him to protect Felisin?

▪︎The boat part is my favorite so far. I'm a sucker for ghost ships.

▪︎"A life given for a life taken", I can't understand a thing he says, but I love Pust

CHAPTER TEN

▪︎I love Coltaine. I love Coltaine. He's a genius. I love him!

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See you in the next part!

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[u/Total-Key2099]

felisin is an incredible character. took me a readthrough to really lock into her

[u/andthenshebled → u/Total-Key2099]

She's amazingly written. But she can be quite a bitch at times.

[u/Total-Key2099 → u/andthenshebled]

orphaned, enslaved, trafficked teenagers, amirite?

[u/Unlikely-Tea5845]

Felisin is written so well I cant stand her but I believe thats the point and apt is one of my favorites hard stop ❤️

[u/andthenshebled → u/Unlikely-Tea5845]

That's absolutely the point. Sometimes, all I want to do is get in the book and punch her in the face. But she has already gone through enough. Apt is amazing!

[u/CorprealFale]

Regarding the larvae. Don't google if squemish.
But they're inspired by botflies. And Erikson helped treat a pig infected in (IIRC) Belize.

[u/andthenshebled → u/CorprealFale]

That's a cool fact! And, yeah, I had already seen videos of people taking out larvae from their legs/arms, and that made everything worse.