[SteveF]

I've just picked up the Bonehunters, but can't really remember what happened prior to this. Can anyone point me in the direction of plot summaries? Wikipedia has some, but it's a bit spotty.

Thanks.

[kater]

It's kinda hard to do because there are so many interlinked spoilers involved in the Malazan summaries - Encyclopedia Malazica is one source but you'd have to be careful what you look at :) How large a reminder do you need?

[JonLaidlow]

I agree - i've just finished Bonehunters and would have appreciated a synopsis of each of the previous books before I started. Some aspects of the earlier books were very clear to me, and others, well, I'm askin' questions here...

[SteveF]

It's kinda hard to do because there are so many interlinked spoilers involved in the Malazan summaries - Encyclopedia Malazica is one source but you'd have to be careful what you look at :) How large a reminder do you need?

I'm kind of Spotty really. I remember bits here and there but would like a decent story arc up to this point; for example, to refresh my memory of the gradual machinations of the Crippled God.

There are also some characters that I forget. I remember Trull Sengar pretty well from Midnight Tides, but not at all from House of Chains (in fact I can barely remember anything from HoC). Some books stick in the mind really well, especially Deadhouse Gates, but Memories of Ice is a bit of a blur (remember a massive city battle and not much else). I can recall that the Jaghut chap and his wandering chum are key throughout the story but not really why. Sigh.

It's a lot to ask really! However, what would be most helpful, as I mentioned, is some kind of broad feel for what has happened. They key events and key players. It's so frustrating not having this knowledge as the world is so detailed and intricate and I feel like I'm missing out.

[AuntiePam]

I need this too. I did get some help from Wikipedia, but I didn't delve too far for fear of spoilers.

[xvart]

I found this through some searching google, which directed me to an old SFFWorld thread, which was linked to an outdated wiki, with with another link to this page. Unfortunately, it is not complete, in fact, I think they only have all of book one done, so it might not be helpful at all.

http://encyclopediamalazica.pbwiki.com/Book+Summaries

xvart.

[JonLaidlow]

There's a real art to a good plot summary - I foolishly decided to cross from paperback to hardback with Reapers Gale, but by the time I read it I just couldn't remember all of the plot threads and characters that I kept giving up. A well written summary of the sections of the previous books important to Gale would have really helped me.

So I gave up - the hardback will hit ebay once the price starts to rise, and when all 10 books are out, I'll pick up the remaining volumes and try to read all 10 in a row.

I think it's old age (now 35) - the teenage me would have reread Malazan several times between each volume and be fully au fait with the different characters, how they fit together, how the magic system worked...

[AuntiePam]

Jon, me too. I re-read constantly as a teenager. New books were hard to come by, and it was nothing for me to finish a book and immediately start over.

I'm about 20% into The Bonehunters now, reading maybe 50 pages a day, and I've already lost track of what's going on in this one book. Icarium and Mappo? Heboric Ghost Hands? Felisin the Younger? Vaguely familiar.

It's still a damn fine read though.