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@re@d.jimfulner.com I saw that you've read The Jungle Book(s).
Esslemont's book is also about a jungle, but it's as far from Kipling as you can come. It's rather a dark (darker than grimdark) fantasy about a jungle where everything, and I mean everything, is trying to kill you. And some of may be magic. In comes people that believe themselves to be civilized, but the jungle teaches them they're not.
The book is Esslemont's post-colonial answer to Heart of Darkness. It also sits well in the larger Malazan series, being the fifth in his Novels of the Malazan Empire series which is a companion series to Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen.
@re@d.jimfulner.com I saw that you've read The Jungle Book(s).
Esslemont's book is also about a jungle, but it's as far from Kipling as you can come. It's rather a dark (darker than grimdark) fantasy about a jungle where everything, and I mean everything, is trying to kill you. And some of may be magic. In comes people that believe themselves to be civilized, but the jungle teaches them they're not.
The book is Esslemont's post-colonial answer to Heart of Darkness. It also sits well in the larger Malazan series, being the fifth in his Novels of the Malazan Empire series which is a companion series to Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen.