Books

I feel the Mazalan books aren't difficult; they are information dense, but you get constant reminders of important plot points. I don't think it is a particularly challenging series to read per se. Just very long, took me a few months to initially get through the main series. It gets pretty dark and grim, but I did enjoy the Mazalan Book of the Fallen series. There is a stylistic choice shift between "Gardens of the Moon" and the rest of the series though. I felt that was weird as fuck, as another commenter mentioned it nearly read as a screenplay for a movie (it was based on one), still turned out pretty good! As I liked his world-building; Steven has a background in anthropology/archaeology makes the way he creates quite interesting.