Kellanved's Reach
core novel 2019 Malazan
Record
| First published | 2019 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.22 (4,605 ratings, collected 2026-09-11) |
| Page count | 420 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765379498 |
Synopsis
The third novel in Ian C. Esslemont's Path to Ascendancy trilogy continues the story of Dancer and Kellanved as they work to found what will eventually become the Malazan Empire. Set amid the incessant, grinding wars between the many bickering, fiercely independent city-states of Quon Tali, an upstart mage from the distant region of Dal Hon steadily gains control of the surrounding southern seas, laying groundwork that will prove essential to the pair's larger and still-unfolding ambitions for the mainland, even as established rivals within Quon Tali begin to take uneasy notice of how far these newcomers have already come.
Where it sits
- Universe: Malazan
- Series: Path to Ascendancy core; position 3 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Ian C. Esslemont
Notes
- Year inferred from 2019 review citations, lightly verified.
- From the series record (Path to Ascendancy): Four published; book 5 (The Last Guardian) in progress.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Path to Ascendancy: position 3 of 4: previous Deadhouse Landing (2017) · next Forge of the High Mage (2023)
Sources
← Malazan dossier · All universes
Part of the Library. Fields without an identified source are omitted, never guessed.