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Summary: Great story
Review: If you're normally a Terry Brooks devoutee..... Try this book/author for a change of pace... and what a change of pace it is.I love the stories spun by Mr. Brooks. This lady seperates herself by quickly introducing you to characters and building the story in the current book. Mr. Brooks' books tend to want to take you back to the salient points of characters lives from previous reading. As a result his books generally are good reads but slow for the first 9 of 12 chapters and bang chapters 10, 11 and 12 come and your blown away. Not this book. THIS BOOK MOVES!!!!!!!!!!!! FROM BEGINNING TO END I feel as though if I say anything about the story I'll give something away. I will say one thing.... Robin nice job with the sex scene ;). One other thing, my wife is generally a grocery store book of the week reader and she steps into the cerebral stuff with her historical masterpieces (800 - 900 page training weights) covering some famous figure or event. She read one chapter of this book and had to have her own. I hope you enjoy it too.
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Summary: what a gifted writer!!
Review: After reading Ms.Hobb's trilogy of the Farseer series, this was like a gift, to us, her readers!! I was so glad that we had the Fool and Fitz all to ourselves for quite some time!! Then, the story flows from there to find the missing prince, with Nighteyes help, of course. What a treat--don't miss this for the world!!
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Summary: Another 2 cents worth for a wonderful writer
Review: If I could give this book more than 5 stars, I would.I agree this is a fantastic story continuing with Fitz, Nighteyes,the
Fool, and some new characters. You can't help but care for them all.I have my slew of family and friends reading the original
Farseer series, and they all agree, Ms. Hobb has such a wonderful gift--she writes in such a way that pulls you in before
you are even aware of it. I have read quite a few writers in this genre, but Ms. Hobb's style is the BEST.
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Summary: Best book ive read in my whole life!
Review: This book is amazing! Its the best thing ive read yet (and ive read a LOT of books) i am awaiting the sequel with lots of exitement! If you have read Robin Hobb before, than i can tell you she has excelled herself in this book. (As she did with the Farseer trilogy, i havent read the ship trilogy) If you havent read any of her books yet, where have you been? They are the best thing since we invented pen and paper!!! I write for my enjoyment, if i could write one tenth as well as she could, i would be extremely pleased with myself! Hire it, loan it, buy it, but do whatever you can to get this book! You cant miss it!
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Summary: Outstanding return of Fitz
Review: I loved this book! Robin Hobb has made a triumphant return to the world of Fitzchivalry Farseer. As a man destined to suffer and persevere in the name of honor, Fitz is a character you can immediately respond to. This story contains magic, triumph, suffering, tragedy, true friendship, and overall a beautifully crafted story that draws every emotion from the reader. Highly recommended.
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Summary: "Tawny Man" Is Really Pulling the Threads Together
Review: Finally! After years of living the quiet life he always thought he wanted FitzChivalry Farseer is called back to his duty to his country in Robin Hobb's (also known as Megan Lindholm) latest book. Fitz, unable to reveal his true identity to the majority of his childhood world, now goes by Tom Badgerlock (the surname referring to that nice white patch Regal gave him). I won't give away too much, but I strongly recommend that anyone who hasn't read the Farseer trilogy do so, followed by the Madship tilogy, before reading The Tawny Man (hey, you're the lucky guys; you'll have something to fill the endless moments 'till Golden Fool is released!). Plus, anyone who hasn't read the Madship trilogy should also do that; there're some clues in those books as to what we'll be seeing--and some interesting possibilities for Fitz's discovery!
Okay, so this book, as all her other books, is very well written, with a realistic approach to a... an adventurous imagination? All I can say is (if you haven't figured it out yet...), this book is EXCELLENT. BRAVO, ROBIN--MEGAN--WHATEVER.
BRAVO!!!
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Summary: The Man Fitz has returned
Review: Fitz has returned and this story is getting more better then it left off at. If you haven't read the frist book STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING NOW!!!! and read them. Awesome story by a fasinating writer who brings depth into every sentance. Intigue, danger, and complex situations all mix togethor. read it now. gid get it done. Take it from a serious reader and a future writer I know classics when i read one
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Summary: Face your fears
Review: „A Fool's errand", sequel to „The Farseer" triology, starts where Robin Hobb's last book about Fitz, Chade, and Ketrricken had ended. Again, one becomes part of FitzChivalry Farseer's inner fight to make sense of life. He was deeply hurt in his childhood and is drawn into the constant quarrel of having to decide between his anxiety to trust others and his duty to protect the Farseer line. As the plot procedes, Fitz realizes that by shutting his feelings away and by living apart from the ones he loves, there is no way for him to really work his feelings out. When Fitz is once more asked for help by his mentor, Chade, he does not face a dangerous adventure alone but is confronted with his innermost fears and worrys. Robin Hobb is an extraordinary writer because of her ability to make one part of the protagonist's feelings, which in difference to other fantasy stories are dominated by fears to fail and his knowledge of how easy it is to hurt one another. The writer shows the only way to deal with such feelings: do not hide and retreat, but take a step forward, even if it is a little one, and face your life. That is the reason the book and the entire series means so much to me.
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Summary: Beyond fantasy
Review: Robin Hobb is a developing writer in the best sense of the word. In the original Farseer trilogy she gave us a story that was beautifully crafted and pushed the envelope on realism within fantasy. Liveship Traders was perhaps an experiment in the use of multiple viewpoints, with a dull and ponderous outcome to my mind. But in writing it, Hobb's skill has improved in bounds, to culminate finally in the utter perfection that is "Fool's Errand." I say perfection even though the beginning might be slow for some readers. But once the story gets going, it takes off, plunging the reader into an ever-deepening plot and a world of characters who are among the most complex in the genre. In particular, Fitz has only gotten better as a character ever since the original trilogy. Age has matured him and given him new dimensions; and yet at the same time, the scars from childhood still remain, surfacing in ways that are beyond his power and even beyond his awareness. It is possible to perceive how Burrich's upbringing and initial abuse have molded Fitz and how his upbringing, together with his subsequent experiences, shape his responses now. Yet through it all he is the same FitzChivalry we know, speaking with the voice of age and experience, but still familiar. This uncanny gift for psychological depth is unparalleled in the genre, and comparatively rare outside the genre as well. Hobb's characters have a quality of mystery to them. There is more to them beyond the scope of the novel; somewhere they are having thoughts we cannot guess, saying things we shall never know about. Just as people in real life always have hidden depths that are beyond anyone's power to see, Fitz, the Fool, Chade, Nighteyes, Starling and the rest of the cast are not completely revealed to us. Some part of the soul remains backstage, hidden from view, because a depth is there that is so real, it must be infinite. How the author conveys this I do not know, but it infuses the novel with movement and intoxicating power. Add this to a riveting and unpredictable plot, moral complexity and as skilled prose as you'll find anywhere, and one clearly has a masterpiece in the making.
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Summary: A good read
Review: It was nice to read a book with a plot, characters that weren't cut and paste, and a lively pace. A very nicely done book.
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