Blood and Bone by Ian Cameron Esslemont
Blood and Bone is the penultimate book of Ian Cameron Esslemont’s main MALAZAN EMPIRE series (I say “main” because he has just begun a prequel trilogy) and while it has its issues, it easily ranks in my top three of the main series’ six titles thanks to a few well-drawn characters and, especially, thanks to its relatively unique setting.
That setting is the jungles of Jacuruku, one of the as-yet-unexplored continents of the Malazan universe.
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