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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pants" data-source="post: 2741053" data-attributes="member: 8849">I love, love, love it.In my mind, Bakker takes Steven Erikson and George Martin and crushes them into one outstanding story. His writing is impeccable (easily better than Erikson and probably more evocative than Martin's writing), his characters are well drawn (though, like Martin, most them are hard to connect with, 90% of his characters are just horrible people), and his world is interesting.If I had to say anything bad about The Darkness that Comes Before is that it is very much a set-up book. It just sorta... ends, without accomplishing much beyond throwing the reader into the world with a few scraps of background info.  But.... it was worth it. The Warrior Prophet was an amazing read.Small The Warrior Prophet spoilers below...[spoiler]The battle on the Plains of Mengedda is just an amazingly written battle. From the charges of the Fanim, to Saubon's fanaticism, and to the appearance of Skauros and the Cishaurim. Wow.[/spoiler]I highly recommend The Darkness that Comes Before... IF you enjoy dark, very unfriendly fantasy, with many well developed characters that aren't very likable, and some defintely graphic themes.</blockquote>