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Toll the Hounds

Book Eight of The Malazan Book of the Fallen

  • 2008 first published
  • 1,280 pages
  • ★ 4.5 (17 ratings)
  • 11 editions

Published in 2008, Toll the Hounds is a dark fantasy and epic fantasy novel by Steven Erikson. Readers will find themes of Action, magic, gods and demons.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.5 out of 5 from 17 ratings, and 33 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 11 editions.

It runs to roughly 1,280 pages — 23–24 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Toll the Hounds

The eighth book in Erikson's extraordinary, acclaimed and bestselling fantasy sequence.It is said that Hood waits at the end of every plot, every scheme, each grandiose ambition. But this time it is different: this time the Lord of Death is there at the beginning...Darujhistan swelters in the summer heat and seethes with portents, rumours and whispers. Strangers have arrived, a murderer is abroad, past-tyrannies are stirring and assassins seem to be targeting the owners of K'rul's Bar. For the rotund, waistcoat-clad man knows such events will be dwarfed by what is about to happen: for in the distance can be heard the baying of hounds.Far away, in Black Coral, the ruling Tiste Andii appear oblivious to the threat posed by the fast-growing cult of the Redeemer - an honourable, one-mortal man who seems powerless against the twisted vision of his followers.So Hood waits at the beginning of a conspiracy that will shake the cosmos, but at its end there is another: Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, has come to right an ancient and terrible wrong...
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Tropes

Subjects

  • Fantasy
  • Thrillers
  • Epic fantasy
  • Military fantasy
  • Dark fantasy
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Magic
  • Gods
  • Demons
  • Assassins
  • Politics
  • War
  • Love
  • Loss
  • Betrayal

Publisher

Quick answers

Who wrote Toll the Hounds?

Toll the Hounds was written by Steven Erikson and first published in 2008.

What genre is Toll the Hounds?

It is usually shelved as Dark Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Myth & Legend Fiction and Demons & Devils.

How long is Toll the Hounds?

The median edition has 1,280 pages, about 23–24 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Toll the Hounds?

Readers who like it often enjoy Heir of Novron, Leviathan Falls and Daughter of Smoke and Bone.

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