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The Farseer Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Assssin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest (2014)

by Robin Hobb(Favorite Author)

4.28 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Del Rey

review 1: Great read, disappointing end. I don't feel rewarded for finishing it. I find myself looking for a different author rather than continuing on to the Tawny Man series. Perhaps I will return to Robin Hobb in time. Definitely an amazing storyteller... Just a depressing, unsatisfying story that i find myself turning away from, only after finishing it. I am confused. I couldn't put it down but I also can't pick it back up. Am I alone in this?
review 2: I worried that Ms. Hobb would never bring the story to a satisfactory close or even a full arc! How could she? It was HUGE in scope! And it grew more complex every page turned. But she did it. It made a painful arc. An arc that is more shaped like a logarithmic curve with a sudden drop at the end than any nice symm... moreetrical swoop through time. How boring are those? That being said the steep climb is richly described and ornately detailed. It maintains ones interest even as it climbs to impossible heights. It is written in a style very different from most "sword and dragon" fantasy books (at least in my limited experience). Overall, it is an interesting style or mode of story-telling. Though I do not like the powerlessness that accompanies stories being told strictly from a limited narrator's point of view. It is especially difficult when the narrator is as dense as FitzChivalry! My, that young man is dim-witted most of the time! Still, I hate to see the arc finish in many ways. Even if my only experience of it is through FitzChivalry's eyes and his telling of the tale. I've grown to like that silly young man, who is endearing to almost everyone in the series when he is not being a dolt. That is not a preponderance of the time, actually. I can see an obvious, glaring even, plot opening for Ms. Hobb to bring him back and write more of his adventures. There is an obvious need for him in the world she created. I am not sure if I will test my assumption and immediately read the new book that has both FitzChivalry and the Fool in it, read the series that has the Fool in it next prior to tackling the new book, or read something else for a while. How fast you can move on from a book is a decent test of how good a book is or at least how engrossing the world it creates is. This was a good series, as I will have quite a book hangover and need to think about this a bit more prior to moving on the next book. Ya'll enjoy your cool weather books and great reading weather, k? less

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