Fitz and the fool series robin hobb 3 books collection set

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a b c Brown, Charles N.; Contento, William G. (2010). "Hobb, Robin". The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2001. Locus. This is where Robin Hobb shines, and I have said many times in the past that Robin Hobb is the single greatest character writer in all of fantasy. This book is the best of her character writing, and I've never read something that comes even close to the quality as this book in this regard. I can vividly remember staying up until 3am, increasingly distressed, reading through the section of this book from the moment Fitz finds the Fool’s dead body to his revival. It didn’t seem possible that there was any way to make this better – although this is fantasy, it is not the sort of fantasy where death is cheap. The only slim hope was Fitz’s death and revival at the end of Royal Assassin, and although that did not seem possible here, I was determined to read on until I knew for sure. Added to that was the horrific nature of the Fool’s death (there was flaying involved) and the awful descriptions of how Fitz found him. I could not and would not stop until it got better. Somehow, eventually, it did. The relationship between the two is what makes this series so powerful and emotional, as the series matures so does their friendship. They have come a long way together, and have lost a great deal together. The two are attached to each other in a way that breaks the bonds of friendship and boarders upon the magical. They are connected. Without each other they would be nothing; they have saved each other from death many times; they are more than friends: they are the White Prophet and Catalyst. Fitz's description of Bee's early years was beautiful and sad. I completely understood how he found it difficult to love her, and his shame in that, and I felt his pain when Bee hated his touch and was apathetic to him. When Bee's first POV chapter came, I shivered with excitement and had goosebumps. It was such a sudden change from every previous Fitz book, where it was one hundred percent Fitz's POV, but it also felt so right. Her interpretation of the world, being simultaneously so very precocious and adult but also childlike and naive, was something I rarely experienced in other characters. Her relationship with Fitz after Molly died was so beautifully written — how they discovered each other, how Fitz tried so earnestly to be a good father to her but failed so much. And her experiences with Wolf-Father (so many tears) gave me even more goosebumps.

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.

If you're - even a little - accustomed to this series, you must know that every chapter is introduced by a short excerpt from someone's memoirs - mostly Fitz's. That's why I chose to write this review as an outlet for my memories linked to these amazing books.

I experienced some similarly conflicted feelings about the developments in the Bingtown characters’ stories here. When we meet Althea and Brashen of the Liveship trilogy in Dragon Keeper, they are happily living their lives and it’s nice to catch up with them, but we don’t desperately need their perspective. However, when Malta goes through dramatic and life-changing events in the Rain Wilds Chronicles, we get to see things through her eyes again, as we did when she was younger, because the story and our relationship with that character demands it. a b Craig, Amanda (August 14, 2015). "Fool's Quest, by Robin Hobb - book review: More swords and sorcery from a Dame of Thrones". The Independent. Brown, Charles N.; Contento, William G. (2010). "Hobb, Robin (continued)". The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2001. Locus. Much to Fitz's reluctance, the Fool leaves him on a journey to his home Clerres. Over a score of years, Fitz meets and reconciles with Molly; the trilogy ends with them together in Chivalry's former estate.The story direction obviously means—once again—that the book is almost completely zero of action sequences. I’m seriously glad for this, Hobb in my opinion is a not a good battle/action scenes writer, Hobb is always at her best when she dived deep into her characters’ personalities and thoughts. Reading her prose about Fitz contemplating about the passage of time and how age changed a person physically and mentally in this book turns out to be the best sequences she ever wrote so far; she could go on and on about this and I’ll devour it with joy. Fitz spends the first half of Assassin’s Quest determined to murder Regal in revenge for the wrongs done to him, but ends up Skill-blasting him, and Regal is eventually finished off by Small Ferret (which it, in itself, quite satisfying). Later, in Fool’s Fate, Fitz wants to kill the Pale Woman, but ends up abandoning her to die instead of actually doing the deed. In Assassin’s Fate, Bee considers killing Vindeliar but leaves him and he eventually dies in a melee. And so, while in real life I approve of neither vengeance nor assassination, as a reader it was finally rather satisfying to see Fitz make sure he finished off Capra before leaving Clerres. As Bee is dragged by her sadistic captors across half the world, Fitz and the Fool, believing her dead, embark on a mission of revenge that will take them to the distant island where the Servants reside—a place the Fool once called home and later called prison. It was a hell the Fool escaped, maimed and blinded, swearing never to return. About second character, I want to say a lot but every word will be a spoiler to the previous books. So I will try to keep it short about this pivotal character. This character is closely related to Fitz and all the while Fitz was worried about Fool, it was this character that was in real danger. Too bad it was too late when Fitz and Fool realized this. Though Fitz is haunted by the disappearance of the Fool, who did so much to shape Fitz into the man he has become, such private hurts are put aside in the business of daily life, at least until the appearance of menacing, pale-skinned strangers casts a sinister shadow over Fitz’s past . . . and his future.

Melville, Peter (2018). "Queerness and Homophobia in Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogies". Extrapolation. 59 (3): 281–303. doi: 10.3828/extr.2018.17. This is where it gets really interesting, because we see this kid grow up with our favorite hero, the Catalyst without the White Prophet, and we as readers are making all the connections as Fitz does not, safe in his marital and familial bliss, even after his poor wife has died. On top of that, his daughter Bee is easily one of the most fascinating characters in the book. This isn't a high adrenaline book, though there's plenty of tension. It's more subtle than that, a more reflective and slower-paced tale. Hobb works her magic though and I felt gripped throughout. A powerful, passionate book that takes #1 spot on my reading list this year. It seems fairly clear from the Fool’s words in The Golden Fool that he wants to be with Fitz in every way; Fitz is not sexually attracted to the Fool, but by the end of the saga, has realised that, regardless of anybody’s ‘plumbing’, these two souls (the Fool and Nighteyes) are the ones he wants to be with. As a heterosexual, cisgender woman I can’t say how well these plots work for those who may see themselves in these characters, but from the outside, they seem like a well drawn and sensitive way to illustrate some things not always found in mainstream literature or fantasy. And, having ‘shipped’ Fitz and the Fool when reading the early books as a teenager, I was finally thoroughly satisfied in this respect by the conclusion to Assassin’s Fate, having cursed Fool’s Fate in no uncertain terms (I am not the biggest fan of Molly!).

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In fact, I felt like the characters from Liveships and Rain Wilds took too large a part of the story. It was definitely nice to visit them again, and I imagine for readers who waited years it was more nostalgic, but it also felt slightly like fan service. I'm not saying they weren't important to the story, but it saddened me to see Althea and Brashen suffering, when it felt like their story was already ended. And Wintrow got way too little attention in contrast to Rapskal, for example. On the other hand, I appreciate how Hobbs made her characters feel even more true to life by showing that their lives continued past what we got to see of their story. How Wintrow didn't "get the girl" in Etta, at least not like he hoped, how Kennitsson wasn't exactly a paragon of virtue (pun intended), how Malta and Reyn, Phron, Thymara and Tats and the other keepers didn't exactly prosper in Kelsingra. I appreciate it, but it still felt incongruous with Fitz's story. I enjoyed the separation between the characters between series. a b Brown, Charles N.; Contento, William G. (2010). "Hobb, Robin". The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2004. Locus. This ending was one for Hobb herself. It was also one for the fans. Will the emotional aspect work as well on more recent fans, who haven't spend as long as we did with those characters? I don't know. This book shattered that, not by expanding the abilities themselves, but introducing a character that interacts with them in a different way. I can't say much more than this without spoiling something major, but it's an extremely satisfying way of exploring this magic system and makes me so excited to read more about in future books. Zutter, Natalie (October 24, 2019). " "I Have Been Incredibly Privileged to Write the Full Arc of Fitz's Story": Robin Hobb on 25 Years of Assassin's Apprentice". Tor.com.