So that's it, the tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen complete. After spending a few years working through the series this is certainly going to leave a bit of a hole.

I'm definitely going to get to the other related series (Tales of Bauchelain & Korbal Broach!), but I don't think I'll rush. The MBotF feels like it needs some settling in time now that I've made it to the end - not a feeling I often have when completing a series, and that speaks of what Steven Erikson has managed to achieve with this.

Bleak, hopeful, often brutally uncaring about favourite characters yet full of moments of human connection and compassion, and flagrantly leaving so many questions unanswered - it's a malazan book through and through.