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Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

Robin Hobb

Start date: August 1, 2012

Finish date: August 31, 2012

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Jan 30, 2023 Tensy (bookdoyen) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

This is classic fantasy at its best. In this first installment of the Farseer Trilogy, we are blessed by the fact that there are no dragons or excessive bloody battles. Instead, this novel is steeped with wonderful characters, that are given time to develop and come with their own stengths and weaknesses, plenty of political intrigue and elements of magic.

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Jan 31, 2013 Zachary Smith rated it really liked it

A good book -
The narrator is the book's protagonist, explaining his life, citing almost every memory from birth ...
Sounds tedious, but it gives the reader an incredible, unparalleled intimacy with the main character - you really, really get to KNOW this guy. And you get to infer shame, pride, love ... all of it ... from the narrator's retrospective. It's really very endearing.
Even so, I will say the pacing is pretty slow and slightly uneven. (That's to be expected though - it's the first in a tr ...more

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Aug 19, 2012 Matt rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, 2013, favourites

The start of this story wasn't hard to get into, or bad in any way, but it felt fairly average. Not in a way that made me want to stop reading, or made it hard to get through, just average. But as I got deeper into the story, I was hooked and loved it. There are two other books in this trilogy, and six (I think) more set in the world, so I imagine Robin Hobb will be getting more of my money soon. ...more

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