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The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by means of interminable battle, sour infighting and bloody confrontations with historical and implacable sorcerers. Even the imperial legions, lengthy inured to the bloodshed, yearn for a few respite. but Empress Laseen's rule is still absolute, enforced through her dread Claw assassins.
For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, their lone surviving mage, the aftermath of the siege of light must have been a time to mourn the various useless. yet Darujhistan, final of the unfastened towns, but holds out. it truly is to this old fortress that Laseen turns her predatory gaze.
However, the Empire isn't on my own during this nice video game. Sinister, shadowbound forces are amassing because the gods themselves arrange to play their hand . . .
Conceived and written on a wide ranging scale, Gardens of the Moon is epic fable of the top order--an spell binding event through an exceptional voice.
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The shelves held various and sundry other items, from pale yellow beeswax candles to a black velvet-covered board crammed full of rings studded with winking, colorful gems. Tas reached out a hand eagerly. "Don't touch the rings, whatever you do," Woodrow called to him suddenly from outside the wagon. "The gems are fake, but Miss Hornslager trades them as real ones. " Tas snatched his hand back abruptly. "I wouldn't," he said, flustered, wondering if the young human could read minds as well as understand animals.
Phineas had seen many things in his kender-filled waiting room. Most of his patients with genuine ailments received them in his office. Fights broke out regularly -- he made a lot of money off those, removing broken teeth and plugging bloody noses -- but he admired this particular kender's ingenuity. Stepping gingerly through the thrashing, flopping bodies and dodging their famous kender taunts, Phineas followed his next patient into the examination room. Washing,his hands in a stoneware pitcher of cool, murky water, he smiled at his patient.
Around his neck hung a necklace of small, gray-white bones -- from what, Phineas did not wish to contemplate. Trapspringer's red-and-gray-streaked eyebrows twitched in curiosity above his almond-shaped, olivecolored eyes. " Trapspringer said expectantly, tapping a toe. " Phineas was still confused. " he asked stupidly. "Oh, no, that wouldn't be possible," the kender said firmly. " Phineas rubbed his face wearily and plopped down on his padded stool. He'd lived around kender long enough to know there was going to be no easy way out of this conversation.