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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45107.Assassin_s_Apprentice?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1170273738m/45107.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45107.Assassin_s_Apprentice?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Assassin's Apprentice</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25307.Robin_Hobb">Robin Hobb</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/830328?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>I'll begin at the end - I LOVED it a lot! And I can't wait until I have enough money to buy the other two parts of the trilogy. <br/>I am so happy that I have found another fantasy book which I like. I always feel so wary when I examine the fantasy shelves in a book store, they all look so much alike and I start to fear that there is no more good fantasy in the world except for that which I have already read. <br/> <br/>There <b>were</b> a few things which bothered me a bit, the end, for example, felt very... Unsatisfying. The rest of the book was more or less whole, but the end seemed a little illogical, too nonsensical. I think it shoul have been worked on a bit more. But apart from that, I read the book with zeal. <br/> <br/>I especially loved the special power he has, the Wit, which allows him to bond with animals, and especially with dogs, I wish I had that with cats. <br/> <br/>A few things in the book reminded me of Harry Potter, ludicrously enough, and it highly amused me. The thing which did so the most was Gallen, who was supposed to train Fitz in the Skill. The way in which he hated him, and the way in which he hated his father, the way he abused him, and the special lessons he gave him which had to do with a certain magic\skill which allows you to enter others minds and thoughts, and if I must continue - the fact that while that certain teacher tries to enter Fitz's head - he doesn't let him do so, because he must protect all sorts of secrets which the teacher mustn't know about, and if I must comtinue <b>further</b> - in the end, Fitz enters the teacher's brain and finds out things about him! <br/> <br/>But of course, this series was written long before Harry Potter, so that there's no way in which the author borrowed this, as for the other way around - I sincerely doubt it. <br/> <br/>12.3.07 <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/64095?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>