Blood and Gore 

When I started reading Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series last year, I was amazed. Four books later, I'm still amazed. The amount of bloody details, spilled entrails and mangled dead bodies of all kinds is just unbelievable. (Don't get me wrong, that's not the only good thing about the series - the storytelling is superb, although it can go into too many directions at the same time sometimes.) I have one misgiving, though... Things are getting complicated, and I hope that Erikson knows where he's going and how he'll wrap them up.