Malazan Book of the Fallen is a series of epic fantasy novels. I can't do them. There are super fans and I think they are masochists. I like long, detailed seri

Malazan Book of the Fallen is a series of epic fantasy novels. I can't do them. There are super fans and I think they are masochists. I like long, detailed series. Wheel of time, a song of ice and fire, the works of Brandon Sanderson, and more. Malazan just tosses you into a complex situation with zero onboarding. This can be a fun way to jump into a world, but Malazan is just terrible at it. I read the first two and a half books. Around that time, they finally described a race that our characters were at war with for the last two books. Like, basic descriptions like the fact they were not hominids was finally conveyed and completely altered what I had in my head for the last 60 hours of reading. Or we find out after a long while of reading (maybe separated by books) that a main character has red hair. I had no clue what was even happening in the first book until the last maybe the last 20%.