I didn't like it.

The story is chaotic but most importantly, the characters don't really draw you in. I didn't find myself rooting for anyone.

Erickson didn't make me care about the "Master of the Deck", or the sorceress chick, or the sneaky mage, or the guy leading the Chain of Dogs or pretty much anyone.

The only guy I liked was the Dark Hero Badass of the series, and he got precious little screen time, other than in Books 1 and 3.

Also, the internal logic of the various overpowered characters in the Malazan world seemed inconsistent.

In book one for example the big, cool badass mentioned above is capable of defeating an ancient being powerful enough to enslave an entire Empire - despite the fact that this Empire has thousands of powerful human mages at its command. But in the same book the very same badass is driven off by just 3 or so mages from that Empire.

So Supreme Badass can defeat Rhaest, who can overpower the entire Empire, but just 3 High Mages from that same Empire are enough to drive off Supreme Badass himself?

So, Rhaest > all the thosuands of mages of the Empire.

Supreme Badass > Rhaest,

But 3 Imperial mages > Supreme Badass?

It's like Rand with Callandor can defeat the entire Seanchan Army. Along comes Moridin with the Choedan Kal and defeats Rand. But then along comes half a dozen damane and drive off the Choedan Kal weilding Moridin.

Doesn't make sense. And that's just one example. In general logic needs to be put aside in order to make the plot work in this series.

But that's not the reason why I ditched the series. I ditched it mostly because I could not identify with the characters. It's like you are reading an academic text on them, rather than experiencing the world through them.

This series needs a healthy dollop of George Martin to get you to care about the characters on a personal level.