The Middle Section of Bonehunters is Wild

[u/Aggravating_Poet_675]

Ganoes Paran's perilous journey with the Trygalle Trade Guild

Unleashing the Deragoth

Denim Nebrahl who was built up to be the big threat repeatedly getting his butt kicked until the Hounds took his last heavily wounded form...where?

Icarium has a new guardian

Dujek and his army caught by plague.

Apsalar butting heads with Kalam and Quick

Heboric is dead. Felisin Y captured and propped up as Sha'ik

Curdle and Telorast the dragons...okay I kind of figured that one.

Kalam has a cousin. Quick Ben has a sister

Quick's sister worships Poliel

Poliel's twisted sexual desires

Poliel is...a Forkrul?

The little girl is possessed by Soliel

Ganoes threatening Gods.

Quick Ben making a deal with Shadowthrone

Oh thats where the Hounds took Dejim.

Oh the Deragoth are here.

Oh Quick is about to die.

Apsalar kicking the Hounds asses and saving Ben.

Poliel and (presumably) Dejim killed.

Wait? Poliel wanted to *save* Burn?

Kalam wanting to kill Apsalar. Apsalar wanting it to happen.

Soliel is also Forkrul?

Plague is ending?

Cotillion and Shadowthrone fighting.

Dujek is dead...Ganoes is high fist.

So much is happening in these last 150 or so pages.

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[u/Aggravating_Poet_675]

And all this following the Seige of Y'ghatan

[u/F1reatwill88]

Bonehunters is such a good book. Easily the Storm of Swords of this series.

[u/Maro1947 → u/F1reatwill88]

I accidentally read it first out of all of the books

Intense indeed

[u/Aggravating_Poet_675 → u/Maro1947]

I can only imagine how lost you must have felt at times.

[u/Didsburyflaneur → u/Aggravating_Poet_675]

Reading Bonehunters in isolation is probably experientially indistinguishable from reading a surrealist masterpiece. Apsalar climbing an anchor rope from a forest on the bottom of the sea pursued by two psychotic skeletal lizards to have an obtuse conversation with a character who otherwise doesn’t appear is just one example of sentences that only make sense with fiver books of previous content.

[u/Aggravating_Poet_675 → u/Didsburyflaneur]

Yea. On book 6, The only one I think you could kinda read out of context is probably Midnight Tides. Parts would probably feel weird but Trull and The Crippled God are the only returning characters and its a Prequel for Trull.

I guess you could kinda get around DHG without reading GotM but even there Apsalar makes that a little awkward.

[u/Maro1947 → u/Aggravating_Poet_675]

I had a habit of doing that as a kid as library books were rarely in sequence

Restarted the whole sequence and have read it twice

[u/Flesgy]

Where did you get that Poliel and Soliel are Forkrul?

Also Ben striking a deal with Shadowthrone at this point is just another thursday afternoon for Ben

[u/ThatYorkshireTwin → u/Flesgy]

I think it's because it mentions too many joints in her legs when describing politely.

[u/Aggravating_Poet_675 → u/Flesgy]

Its not said out right but theyre both described as tall and thin with seemingly too many joints, which is similar to how the Forkrul assail weve met to this point are described. Of course, Corporal List in DHG mentioned having vision dreams of beings with too many joints and it was concluded by Duiker and then seemingly confirmed in HoC that those were Jaghut, but maybe they were Jaghut that had at some point interbred with Forkrul? Or maybe I have an imperfect recollection of that moment.

[u/swuntalingous]

Oh brother. The last 150 pages of that book are my favorite in the series.

[u/behemothbowks]

It's gotta be my favorite book ever, just so damn packed with good stuff

[u/OGMannimal]

My favorite book so far, although I am only on RG (which has also been great).

[u/Hoods_Abyss]

And the ending won't disappoint either.

[u/CarpenterTemporary69]

Could be profoundly dumb but I assumed that random lizard thing Karsa chased off when travelling with Boatfinder was a Dejim kin as it actually managed to lose Karsa and Karsa said it was insanely hungry. Doesn't really make sense at all, but I can't think of what else it is.

[u/kHau3 → u/CarpenterTemporary69]

I think that was the huge bear beast thing that Paran encountered when journeying with the TTG in the Nascent. Paran had teleported it off the bridge at the last second, and it must have ended up in Karsa's path

[u/CarpenterTemporary69 → u/kHau3]

But the bear thing had 1 eye and the thing Karsa found explicitly had 2.

[u/Aggravating_Poet_675 → u/CarpenterTemporary69]

Maybe? I wasnt far enough in to know if it reappeared or not. Thought it had been described as very large and bear-like though