The God is Not Willing by Steven Erikson5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() For not only was Erikson able to meet my expectation – a return to the iconic ranks of the Malazan army, filled with new faces and a new way of doing things – he was able to better them, exceeding all my dreams. ![]() When ‘The God is Not Willing’ arrived on my doorstep, then – later than I would have liked, but it’s been a year – I was palpably excited and dove in and was immediately rewarded. Authors who are putting out books every year or so often fail to deliver on the expectation, let alone expectation that builds over a decade.Īnd it’s been a decade since Erikson published ‘ The Crippled God’, the tenth and final book in his Malazan Book of the Fallen epic, which with its completion set a new high watermark for literature in general, never mind just fantasy literature. Even fewer authors are able to meet the soaring levels of expectation that meet such a long-awaited return. Similarly, there have been very few authors capable of fostering the level of excitement for a new book that Steven Erikson was capable of since he confirmed he would return to the world of the Malazan Book of the Fallen. Very few authors in the two decades I have been reading fantasy have managed to captivate to the degree that Erikson has managed. When Steven Erikson’s ‘The God is Not Willing’ was announced, and we edged closer to a return to the Erikson-written Malazan world, I was ecstatic. ![]()
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