Amy's review
Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1)
by Robin Hobb
'Tis a sad thing that the use of 'harridan' has fallen by the wayside. Likewise 'trollop' and 'varlet.' I've had moderate success in reviving 'lackwit'-- we'll see how it fares in the long run.
Amy's review
Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1) by Robin Hobb
Amy's review
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scififantasy
what is it about trilogies? is it because tolkien wrote such a successful trilogy that now all fantasy writers feel compelled to do so? cs lewis wrote seven - i should be thankful that not everyone does that (except jk rowling, of course).
anyway. i digress. this set of books is absolutely servicable, solid, satisfying fantasy. good storyline, believable characters, enough sex and violence to be honest but not so much as to be prurient. there is intrigue, there is romance, there is psychic communication with animals and humans, there are vicious invaders and treacherous princes and brave-but-foolish upstarts who may or may not seize the day. there is pathos and also some humor.
i have cranked through these books methodically and with pleasure, if not total absorption and rapture. i say hurray to robin hobb for giving us meat-and-potatoes adventure fare. i thoroughly look forward to her other trilogies, and expect that my desire to lose myself in a pre-industrial kingdom in which...more
anyway. i digress. this set of books is absolutely servicable, solid, satisfying fantasy. good storyline, believable characters, enough sex and violence to be honest but not so much as to be prurient. there is intrigue, there is romance, there is psychic communication with animals and humans, there are vicious invaders and treacherous princes and brave-but-foolish upstarts who may or may not seize the day. there is pathos and also some humor.
i have cranked through these books methodically and with pleasure, if not total absorption and rapture. i say hurray to robin hobb for giving us meat-and-potatoes adventure fare. i thoroughly look forward to her other trilogies, and expect that my desire to lose myself in a pre-industrial kingdom in which...more
'Tis a sad thing that the use of 'harridan' has fallen by the wayside. Likewise 'trollop' and 'varlet.' I've had moderate success in reviving 'lackwit'-- we'll see how it fares in the long run.
