These people are in complex situations and have unique emotional coloring. If you thought Fitz, the Fool, Patience, Verity, and Burrich were a hodgepodge of humanity in all of its complicated glory, the characters from The Liveship Traders trilogy ups the ante. Things really pick up speed in the second half of the first novel, and we are treated to some of the most intricate characters from the Realm of Elderings Series. When she finally circled back around to someone, I had to read with intent to try and recall exactly who they were. The first half of the Ship of Magic is a complete slog that is constantly adding new characters but never intertwining them. Wherever you ultimately put the number of excess pages, a good chunk of the book is fluff, repetitive, and uninteresting. Robin Hobb wasn’t doing me any favors, either.Ī common complaint of this Trilogy is the page count. I guess social media hasn’t completely rewired my brain. If there was a hidden blessing of going through a 2000+ page trilogy I ultimately didn’t like, it was that I can still read through a 2000+ page trilogy. However, I can’t look past the ending she finally serves. It would have been easy to forgive Hobb for taking too long before she starts cooking. A Tale That Takes Too Long to Wind Up Unravels At The End.
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