After one year, I reached the grand finale of “Malazan Book of the Fallen” by finishing the tenth book, “The Crippled God”.

All of the books in the series are top-notch, and unlike some other fantasy series, this one is complete and has a very satisfying grand finale.

The cast is huge. Some of the people just stay for one book, and some stay for the whole series. Sometimes people appear in one book and only reappear two books later. Sometimes people are introduced in detail only to be killed or die in some other way. But dying doesn’t necessarily imply that they won’t reappear later on. Dead people or ghosts of dead people reappear. And sometimes people are resurrected or ascend and become gods.

There are many gods, ascendants, ghosts, and people who transform into dragons or some other kind of creatures or even groups of creatures and then back again.

And there are portals to other worlds, and traveling through those other worlds can be used to get faster to other places in the original world.

And there is magic of various kinds.

The whole series consists of several military campaigns which finally culminate in the grand finale dealing with a god that fell on the world and shattered into several pieces. Therefore, much of it is about soldiers getting around the world and killing each other. But there are many side quests.

In some print editions the whole series is more than 11,000 pages long. As I was reading it on a Kindle, pages are no concern for me, but it is a very long read.

It’s heroic, magical, and at many times just fun. I highly recommend it as one of the best fantasy series I’ve read to date.