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Summary: One of the best trilogies I've ever read
Review: I often find it hard to find novels that are interesting and involved without being overwhelming with names, places, and a plethera of events that have no real relationm to the story as far as I can tell. Hobb's trilogy was everything I could have asked for in a novel. It was so easy to completely slip away in to the world of FitzChilvery and get lost in all his trials. A good read for anyone!!!
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Summary: This was one of the best books I have ever read
Review: This book was the most enjoyable I have read in a long time. The characters were beautifly crafted and the plot very often left me compltetly clueless as to what was going to happen next.(Something that has not happened for a very, very, long time.) Never have I read a book that left me with such a wrenching feeling of sorrow at the conclusion. Not just because the ending was so sad, though that was some of it, but because the story had to end and I had to return to the real world once more. I have to admit that I was a little disapointed with the conclusion to this book, even though this story was not really meant to end up with the hero winning the girl and comming home in triumph, I wish it would have finished on a little happier note. It has been a long time since I have read a book as good as this and I would definately recomend it to anyone who realy enjoys reading fantasy.
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Summary: Outstanding! A must read.
Review: I really enjoyed this series. The last bookd held me so tightly that I didn't go to work one day just to finish it. While the ending did seem rushed and I'm sure a lot more could have been written about Fitz and his 6 years in the 'wilderness' I'm hoping this will be in another book real soon. I'd also like to see the story continue since Fitz is only about 30 years old but he seems to have gone into retirement which I find rather sad. He still has plently of time to find himself and a new life if he wants it. I would highly recommend this series to all Fantasy readers who enjoy getting emotionally involved with a good book and great characters.
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Summary: Endings are always hard to do...
Review: In a way, I was glad that there wasn't the traditional fantasy "happy ever after". It's been done to death in genre fiction, and a happy ending with Molly would have been completely implausible after all that had passed. Still, I was left with a vague, dissatisfying sense of "what next"? Especially as Fitz was still a young man (with an exaggeratedly old head on his shoulders) and I wanted to know more about the Fool, who was becoming more intriguing than Fitz. (It's rare to find a clown-figure who isn't a complete bore from start to finish). I thought the ending a little rushed, as they often are, and overall found the characterisation more patchy than with the two previous ones. Starling just didn't come over as a developed character at all, for the time that was devoted to her. By the way, what's with the inside jacket blurb, which insinuates that the start of this trilogy was Robin Hobb's first novel? It made me, as a new writer, feel like giving up - until I found out that Robin Hobb, as Megan Lindholm, has written several other books before this! Seems somewhat dishonest marketing to me, and not necessarily fair to the writer (I don't know her real name but it's not Lindholm either). By the way, my review rating looks harsher than I'd like: it should have been *** and a half, but I couldn't do that. It's certainly worth reading, and not nearly as tired-feeling as the endings of many other series are.
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Summary: Character's are alive, which makes ending more depressing
Review: Before I start, I'll admit it openly: I get too caught up in books, and so this trilagy depressed me. When I finally finished AQ after not stirring all day, I felt almost like I was waking from a nightmare. Only I'm so upset about the ending that I can't can't stop thinking about it, so I'm writing this to try to snap out of Fitz's head and remember that life still exsists.I think that far from falling off in character development, Robin Hobb has only gotten better. I thought that nothing could be done with Fitz after the way she ended the second book, but I have to say something was done, and it was done well. Fitz grew up...very realistically, which is perhaps why the series is so sad. I have two big problems with this book: The first is that it got very weird after awhile. The self destruction and the forming of the dragons was too starnge, and it was easy to lose the charcters there. Also, what is it that she has with self-sacrafice/destruction? Verity has to give up everything for the Kingdom, Fitz has to give up everything for Verity. Something seems a little off here. The second problem was the end. I understand that there couldn't be a happy ending for Fitz and Molly. Much as I hated it, I came to that realization on my own, somewhere in the middle. However, there was no reason to finish the set on such a dark note. Fitz's life with Molly was over, but one ending doen't mean there isn't another beginning. Kettle's prophasy to Fitz even identicated that there would be. But insread of allowing us to hope for that, Hobb writes the most hopless closing chapter I have ever read, in which the general impression you get is that Fitz is cut of from everybody, and has given up on ever trying to connect to anyone else. Even the boy is called "Boy". You'd think that the original Boy would know better then that. What takes the cake is the last line, that Fitz and Nighteyes are waiting to create their own dragon. Wonderful. Robin Hobb closes the trilagy by having the main character in! whose head we've been in sinse he was six, say that he basically wants to be forged. No wonder I'm depressed. I admire authors who refuse to take the easy way out, and understand that life is not always perfect (most fantasy authors have a hard time grasping this). The Farseer trilagy, however, took this a little to far. Life isn't perfect, but it's not hopless either.
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Summary: An extremely well-written and engrossing book...
Review: I cannot say how much I loved this book, and the entire trilogy. It was so real. I thought the ending was appropriate, him becoming a hermit. I just wish that he told everybody that he was still alive, get back at his "whore" for discarding him. Otherwise, it was a satisfying and good story.
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Summary: Excelent reading!
Review: If you're only going to buy one fantasy trilogy, buy this one. I haven't read such engrossing plotting and intrigue since "Dune". The characters are consistent and human and their motivations understandable. I foresee this trilogy as becoming as much of a hit as Robinson's "Red Mars, Green Mars & Blue Mars". (sorry i'm not giving an individual review of the novel, but I just read one after the other without pause)
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Summary: This review may answer questions about this (wonderful) book
Review: For many people who have read the Farseer Trilogy, Robin Hobb's descriptive and poetic words and her clever and profoundly complex imagination have led them into a whole new world filled with vivid colors, clear and crisp sounds, and many unexpected surprises. But for some, the traditional ending of 'Guy works hard, then guy gets the girl' is more appealing to them than the ending Ms. Hobb has seen fit to end her book with. Yes, it is unexpectantly brutal, and disturbing for the moment until one understands it was the only way fit to end the trilogy. In the end of the first book, Fitz is weak and stranded in the mountains. In the end of the second installment, he had survived a brutal beating, that has left it's conspicuous marks in the third book, and has almost lost his soul to Nighteyes. It only seems fit to be consistent in the third book. It seems as though I would have thought it too obvious to end the third book with Fitz happy as can be with his long lost love Molly. That is one of the many aspects I enjoy in Robin Hobb's books. Very little is obvious or expected, and it is refreshing to find an author who goes against the grain. There were some loose ends, but that is to be expected. Such as the Old Blood topic which never really went very far. That was one thing that was a mistake. She could have done alot with it. But besides that, the other couple loose ends keep the reader wondering what happens to the other characters. Whether done on purpose or by accident, it leaves the reader somewhat hanging. Even when all the questions are answered, there is still a mystery yet to be solved. This is even present in the "About the Author", which has as little information about Ms. Hobb as possible. Even when one is done with the series, there is still an air of suspicion, and mystery. It is quite an experience. Just an afterthought. It seems as though Fitz is not only telling the story of the six duchies, and the titanic events occurring in it, but also writi! ng his autobiography. His entire life, from age five, to his present old age. He tells of his loves, his adventures, his pleasures, and his pain at the loss of his humanity. The pain at the loss of his love. And the pain of knowing that his closest companions thought him dead. It is a story of life. That terrible things happen, wonderful things are lost, and that the hero doesn't always get the girl. He doesn't get his life back, he doesn't even get the satisfaction of knowing that he has one friend in the world. That is the life Fitzchivalry lives. Anyone who has read this book should see how lucky they are. These books are amazing and awe-inspiring, and I encourage Ms. Hobb with all my heart that she keep writing.(Even more than the Ship of Magic books). She has a talent that I enjoy, and envy. Please e-mail me if you have comments. I would enjoy to hear them.
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Summary: great ending
Review: i consider the ending to be very daring, but it came out quite well. lets see, we have the young assassin that we've known since childhood become aged far beyond what he should be. sure hes in his twenties or thirties, but think what the poor boy has been through. now chade is the character id like to see more books about. come on people we have this awesome mentor that is so cool. he was one of my favorite characters and i love how he turned out in his book. no longer staying in the tower. in this novel our friendly elder assassin goes into action. excellent book
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Summary: Well writen, but i dont think it needed to be a trilogy
Review: This series started out with great potential, then I feel went downhill, through 2 1/2 books we watched our main character's (Fitz) life crumble around him. I didnt enjoy watching Fitz's life get more and more depressing, especially in first person. I found the ending to be everything id been waiting for during the last three books, and beleive that this series would have been better if Ms. Hobb had condensed it into one book. Then we wouldnt have had to go through a thousand plus pages of hoping Fitz would do something worth reading.
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