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Dancer's Lament
- Path to Ascendancy, Book 1
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Series: Malazan Empire: Path to Ascendancy, Book 1
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy
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- david blagbrough
- 09-07-16
Exceptional
I doff my hat once more to Mr Esselmont. Dark, funny, well paced and seem less as ever.
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- C. P.
- 29-05-20
Great book, always fun to learn the back story
Really enjoyed the character development of the Rope and where has he come from. This piece showed beginnings of a very likeable youth. I wan't to know more... I can't wait for the next book!
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- Andreas
- 18-08-19
Enjoyable but without a strong story
A dip into the Malazan world that doesn't require the same deep dive that some of the other books do. Enjoyable but at times predictable. As someone who has played roleplaying games this at times reads like someone retelling their campaign, including the preposterous plans and actions the players tried - which makes sense as this is the likely origin of this part of the Malazan world.
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- J Han
- 14-11-18
Really interesting!
Read the Fall of the Malazan Empire books and thought this could be a good addition to the story. Didn't disappoint! Really enjoyed the insight into the past.
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- Seamus Harley
- 22-12-17
Entertaining
This is a great book, predates the main series very well, very well narrated also
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- William
- 10-05-16
MIGHTY MEZLA!!!
This is what I've been waiting for ever since I first read Steven Erikson's Gardens of the Moon, the beginning of a partnership that won an empire. This book was great and has made me go back to the beginning of Gardens of the Moon and redu Erikson's books just to get hints into what Convergence will happen in Esslemont's next book of the series.
That being said John Banks is no Michael Paige or Ralph Lister, I only hope he can redeem himself in Esslemont's Return of the Crimson Guard. I found that he needed to work on keeping very similar voices out of each scene so as not to confuse the listener as to which character was speaking (gets rather annoying to have to keep going back just to listen to dialog more closely to know who said what).
Looking past that however, this is a brilliant beginning to the Malazan Empire and I say WELL DONE Esslemont, keep up the great work because I can't wait for the next one
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- Wyn
- 27-07-20
Great that this exist
Love the Malazan series, so very happy that these three books exists and you get to learn some of the origins of the events and characters from the Book of the Fallen. The writing is not in the same league as Erickson's, however, that said, I still thoroughly enjoyed these books.
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- ObliVioN
- 28-03-16
great
good narration. great to see the start of dancer and kellenved. excitedly waiting for the next book.
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- kyle
- 04-04-16
an average origin story
an enjoyable pre-malaz story with an interesting introduction to a couple of shadowy upstarts and their plans.