Monissa's review
Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1)
by Robin Hobb
I've had the second in this series for years but put off getting the first. Why I rathered enjoyed reading the Liveships books, the handling of the storyline/s and character development left me every dissatisfied and reluctant to read anything else by the author
If I'd known this book was a first person account of the narrator growing up, I would never have picked it up even if it was just $2 at a book fair.
But this is just the sort of fantasy I used to love, and obviously still do. I kept getting lost in it, even though I was supposed to watching our table at the gun show or sister's kids were arguing around me. That's why it gets a 5.
Maybe it's because the narrative voice comes across so strongly that any faults in the storytelling seem right, because that's how someone would recount it. There's the odd place where it doesn't work, where the memories of boyhood seem unusually detailed or the jumping of events a little too convenient.
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Monissa's review
Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1) by Robin Hobb
Monissa's review
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I've had the second in this series for years but put off getting the first. Why I rathered enjoyed reading the Liveships books, the handling of the storyline/s and character development left me every dissatisfied and reluctant to read anything else by the author
If I'd known this book was a first person account of the narrator growing up, I would never have picked it up even if it was just $2 at a book fair.
But this is just the sort of fantasy I used to love, and obviously still do. I kept getting lost in it, even though I was supposed to watching our table at the gun show or sister's kids were arguing around me. That's why it gets a 5.
Maybe it's because the narrative voice comes across so strongly that any faults in the storytelling seem right, because that's how someone would recount it. There's the odd place where it doesn't work, where the memories of boyhood seem unusually detailed or the jumping of events a little too convenient.
The world being presented w...more
