Never Trust a Necromancer

While looking for something else, I found Steven Erikson's Bauchelain and Korbal Broach. This is a collection of novellas about a pair of completely nasty necromancers set in Erickson's Malazan series. I set the book aside some months ago having stopped at the last story, "The Healthy Dead", and for some reason, didn't pick it up to finish.

Which is odd, as I enjoy Bauchelain and Broach's, um, endeavours? Erickson is playing games with perceptions of protagonists with these two, and the manservant Emancipor Reese, in that, while they frequently are heroes and do the right thing, those two (that trio?) are villains. They're just usually better than their opponents. They are not anti-heroes. Villains.

Which seems to be the norm for Erickson. I've only read a little of his Malazan series and it seems that the golden boy, the hero, worked for the Evil Dark Lord, and the troop of thugs, barely worth calling them soldiers, fights for right?

More reading of Steven Erickson's fiction is required.