Robin Hobb
Kindle Edition | Pages: 706 pages Rating: 4.37 | 40051 Users | 2729 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Fool's Assassin ASIN B00HBQUF8S |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Fitz and The Fool Trilogy #1, Realm of the Elderlings #14 |
| Characters: | The Fool, FitzChivalry Farseer, Lady Patience, Chade Fallstar, Bee, Riddle, Kettricken, Nettle |
| Literary Awards: | Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2019), David Gemmell Ravenheart Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Cover Art (2015), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2014) |
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Tom Badgerlock has been living peaceably in the manor house at Withywoods with his beloved wife Molly these many years, the estate a reward to his family for loyal service to the crown.But behind the facade of respectable middle-age lies a turbulent and violent past. For Tom Badgerlock is actually FitzChivalry Farseer, bastard scion of the Farseer line, convicted user of Beast-magic, and assassin. A man who has risked much for his king and lost more…
On a shelf in his den sits a triptych carved in memory stone of a man, a wolf and a fool. Once, these three were inseparable friends: Fitz, Nighteyes and the Fool. But one is long dead, and one long-missing.
Then one Winterfest night a messenger arrives to seek out Fitz, but mysteriously disappears, leaving nothing but a blood-trail. What was the message? Who was the sender? And what has happened to the messenger?
Suddenly Fitz's violent old life erupts into the peace of his new world, and nothing and no one is safe.
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| Title | : | Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and The Fool Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | Robin Hobb |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 706 pages |
| Published | : | August 12th 2014 by Del Rey |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Epic Fantasy. High Fantasy |
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Ratings: 4.37 From 40051 Users | 2729 ReviewsColumn About Books Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and The Fool Trilogy #1)
I received a copy of Fool's Assassin on Netgalley.com to read it and write an honest review. I read the book only a week after I had finished reading the Tawny Man Trilogy so the idea and the general flow of Hobb's book was still fresh in my mind. I dived into the ARC with an open heart and open mind expecting to read about Fitz and his new life away from Buckkeep, but also about his new adventures and other exciting things.I expected too much. 80% of the book covers their day-to-day life andLong after the events of Tawny Man, when I thought all was wrapped up for good, Ms. Hobb came back and dropped this. And what a beautiful start she gave to this trilogy.Tom Badgerlock is living in Withywood with his wife, all the kids grew up and left the nest to make their own life. Magic of Skill is keeping him young while his wife is slowly withering away into old age. He is enjoying his life but still can't stop drowning himself in self-pity at times. Those are darker times but he tries his
Wow.I mean, WOW.I've read something like nine, now ten of her books at this point and they were all epic doorstoppers split as trilogies, and this one may actually be my favorite of them all.Why? Well, it wasn't because there was a ton of death and grief in it. Indeed, middle-aged retired Fitz having a well-deserved life with his childhood sweetheart and bringing a new winter baby into their lives was probably the sweetest damn thing the author could have done for him.She writes it so well that
I feel like Hobb's introductions are really weak. The first books always sets up the frame for the last two parts of the trilogy, so nothing really happens, and everything is kind of predictable. But man, can she write a middle book, does not suffer from the middle book problem, filled with actions.
Fitzchilvary Farseer, who has now adopted the name Tom Badgerlock, is enjoying his retirement; he has a fairly calm life compared to his assassin days. Most of the book is given over to him looking back on his youth and trying to move on from the past; it's a deeply introspective journey. Robin Hobb somehow managed to make the narrative flow so eloquently that I didn't realise that I'd stormed through the entire book in a day. How does she do it? I think its all about the wonderful
What a great book!The most striking thing, to me, about this work is how very well Hobb balances small, quotidian dramas with world-shaking events. She understands perfectly how, from an individuals perspective (and especially, from a childs perspective) the small things can actually be the big things. And her writing is good enough that even the small things keep the reader on the edge of ones seat (although this is not to imply that big things arent happening here as well).This is the seventh
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