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Realm of the Elderlings Project: The Tawny Man, Book 2: The Golden Fool
In which desire carries risks . @ergative continues the re-read at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/08/realm-of-elderlings-project-tawny-man.html#bookstodon #books #review #fantasy #robinhobb #realmoftheelderlings @bookstodon
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Realm of the Elderlings: The Data Science Edition
I previously wrote a spoiler-free overview, a series by series reading experience report, and a deep dive into the book series Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb. This post here will conclude my blog posts about Realm of the Elderlings with some data, both about the books themselves, as well as my personal reading statistics and ratings.
First, let’s look at the books and the series as a […]
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Realm of the Elderlings: A deep dive
After I gave a a spoiler free overview of the Realm of the Elderlings, as well as a very long series by series review and reading experience report, I want to analyze some aspects of this series as a whole (but mostly regarding the books with Fitz as the main character). In this post, I’ll dive deep into the characters and themes of the series.
SPOILER WARNING: This entire post contains […]
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Realm of the Elderlings: Series by series reviews and reading experience
How was it to read The Realm of the Elderlings? After my spoiler-free overview in the previous post, this post will contain more in-depth reviews which were largely written as StoryGraph reviews as I was reading each book, and then later assembled here into a coherent post.
Some books or sub-series were definitely a lot easier to read than others. Each was a somewhat different experience, […]
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Realm of the Elderlings: A spoiler free overview
Never in my life before have I undergone such a monumental task as reading a 16 book series. I’ve read a book series here and there, mostly though with only 3 books or in rare cases, up to 7 or 9. This achievement is a first for me, but hopefully not the last.
The series I’m writing about is The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb. Her novels were recommended to me by friends and […]
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I am rereading the #RealmOfTheElderlings series by #RobinHobb. It is of course one the greatest #Fantasy series ever written. I finished the #Farseer trilogy and am on #LiveshipTraders.
This is mostly spoiler free.
There is a character named Kyle Haven who is quite unlikable. Hobb does a good job of making us understand his motivations. We know how he sees himself as the hero of his own story but that does not really make me emphasize with him.
Kyle Haven is a mundane villain but somehow that makes him even worse. He is the sort of person who bullies the people around him to make himself feel more important and convinces himself that he is actually doing them a favor. I think we've all known people like that.