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Book review: The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb

I loved Hobbs beautiful and introspective writing style; her world and character building; and her depiction of themes such as loneliness, otherness and powerlessness. Most of all, I loved the depiction of the interconnectedness of all life through the magical Wit bond between the protagonist and the wolf. All in all highly recommended.

https://kedara.eu/book-review-farseer-trilogy/

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Robin Hobb -
- Fool's Errand
- Golden Fool
- Fool's Fate
a.k.a. the Tawny Man trilogy

I'm part way through the Elderlings series, of which this is one segment. In a way, this trilogy is a bit like one giant book, because the second and third books each pick up where the previous one left off.

I felt this was the best set so far, as a set. They're beautifully paced: always something unfolding, never rushed.

I'd still recommend starting from the start of the series, because this builds upon the previous books - especially upon the first trilogy.

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Born this day: 03/05/1952
Megan Lindholm is an American author also known as Robin Hobb. Her novella "A Touch of Lavender" earned Hugo and Nebula nominations. Her 1992 novel Alien Earth imagined humanity aboard an alien starship.

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Por estas cosas #RobinHobb siempre será mi reina de la literatura fantástica.

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Reading Ship of Destiny had been slow, so I'm only about halfway through. I got to the part where Selden is speaking to Tintaglia as she arrives to Bingtown and I can't help but think that Hobbs' dragons are like cats and how I'd imagine cats would like us to talk to them if they could tell us their preference.

"Oh magnificent one, your fur shines like the moon and the sun, your form is grace and beauty incarnate! Please bestow us the honour of doing your bidding in cleaning your toilet sand."

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#MoisDeLImaginaire - Jour 6 - Autrice

Megan Lindholm, alias Robin Hobb

Robin Hobb est le pseudonyme de Megan Lindholm, forgé pour éviter le stéréotype lié aux autrices Fantasy. Son œuvre majeure est L’Assassin Royal qui fête cette année ses 30 ans.
Roman d’apprentissage suivant Fitz, le héros, dans un univers riche, peuplé de chevaliers, de pirates et de magie.

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1/3

Mad Ship made me feel hopeful for this trilogy, but Ship of Destiny is dragging again and full of shitty entitled men as the main source of threat. My least favourite trope! The only correct amount of shitty entitled men in a series is one, and that only if they're killed by a slightly deranged ferret in the final book.

Wintrow is at least still interesting in all his tragic misery, whereas Althea and Brashen just make me want to skip all the parts they're in.

I even enjoyed Malta's parts before a shitty, entitled man happened. :'(

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420 of 445 hours of audiobook listening in to the entirety of #RobinHobb's Realm Of The Elderlings Trilogies.

(Farseer, Live Ship Traders, Tawny Man, Rainwild Chonicles, Fitz and The Fool)

The narrator for the Fitz and The Fool trilogy has consistently said 'Live Ship' as 'liv ship' not 'lIve ship' over a hundred times.

If I had taken a shot a time in the last 5 chapters alone I'd be dead.

If you can be correct with 'Aslevjal' you can manage Live Ship. It's not like it makes sense the other way.

Aside from that, great narration work all round, I love the series and it's as fun listening as it was reading.
Passing character accent notes between trilogies would have been cool, but trad pub doesn't have a handle on narrator consistency yet (still?), and a pronunciation guide.

And giving the narrator a pronunciation guide.
<fx:mutter grumble>

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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

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Finally finished The Mad Ship! It was an easier read than Ship of Magic, probably at least partly because the edition had a bigger front, but moreso because everything wasn't so damn shitty for the characters all the time.

There's so many POV characters that I don't really feel attached to any of them, and I don't really agree with how some of the character arcs were done, just didn't feel genuine, but I look forward to reading what happens in the Ship of Destiny!

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Finished the first book of the Farseer Trilogy. Absolutely brilliant. Definitely a fantasy series I’ll be eager to finish. 😊

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Ship of Magic is approaching it's end and Wintrow's fate has me convinced that Hobb not-so-secrectly enjoys the torture of young boys.

He hasn't quite reached Fitz-levels of fuckuppery but there's still two whole books' worth of time.

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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 […]

https://chaosworks.org/2025/elderlings-data/

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 […]

https://chaosworks.org/2025/elderlings-deep-dive/