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Minerva the Bookwyrm Captain
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 Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:11 am
Robin Hobb wrote three fantasy trilogies:
The Farseer Trilogy
Assassin's Apprentice
Royal Assassin
Assassin's Quest
The Liveship Traders Trilogy
Ship of Magic
The Mad Ship
Ship of Destiny
The Tawny Man Trilogy
Fool's Errand
Golden Fool
Fool's Fate
If you have any thoughts to share about them please discuss! smile Also, check out Hobb's Official Website; the layout is extremely interesting!
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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:31 pm
Liveship Traders is definitely one of my favourite series ever. It's about merchant families that have magical ships where the figureheads can think and speak. What precisely the boats are made of is a secret that's discovered as the story progresses.
This series reminds me a great deal of Jane lindskold's books because we get to see the perspective of all of the main heroes and villains, making all of the characters extremely well-developed.
My favourite characters in the trilogy are Winntrow, the fourteen year-old that wants to be a preist, and Brashen the sailor. Kennitt, a pirate whom everyone adores and considers honourable when he isn't, is absolutely fascinating even if he isn't one of my faves.
Most summaries about the books talk about Althea, and she's interesting enough, but she doesn't hold a candle to Winntrow, who is her nephew, in my opinion. Althea's family ship was supposed to go to her after her father's death, but instead it goes to her brother-in-law whp begins to use it to import slaves. Althea and Brashen work together to try to earn it back for her.
Out of her other books, I've only read Assassin's Apprentice. It was undeniably good with characters that were so far from the average fantasy cliche that they threw me for a loop, but it had so few moments of triumph that when the ending was close-enough-to-happy I decided to stop reading the series. The Farseer trilogy is much more popular than the Liveship one, so the recommendations I'd give my fellow elves certainly differ from that of the masses.
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