Assassin's Apprentice
1st Voyager edition paperback fine
1st Voyager edition paperback fine
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780006480099 (0006480098)
Publish date: March 1996
Publisher: Voyager
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Series: Farseer Trilogy (#1)
by Robin Hobb This is an excellent fantasy story in the old traditional sword and sorcery sense. It's about a boy, born a royal bastard, who is thrust into his father's family with all the intrigues and dangers that go with being a loose end in the line of succession. The story is very well writ...
Hahahaha. Okay, good start, good start. The first Realm of the Elderlings book! The one that started it all! Baby Fitz, already fighting against more pain and tragedy than most people ever experience! The Fool when he was just really weird and disconcerting and not really BFFs with Fitz yet! Kettri...
Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow of the royal court by his father’s gruff stableman. He is treated as an outcast by all the royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has him secretly tutored in the arts of the assassin. For in Fitz’s blood runs the m...
This read was somewhere between 3.5 and 4 stars. Robin Hobb doesn't tend to info dump, and I really appreciate that; it can be more common than I'd like in fantasy and science fiction. It also can be very common in historical fiction, alas! I hate "As you know, Bob" Syndrome, but it's not a prob...
So I think everyone and their sister has read this book, but basically, Fitz, the bastard son of a beloved Prince, is taken to court and raised to be an assassin. Fifteen year old me would have LOVED this book. Forty year old me is both pickier and lazier. Fitz is a very appealing character, all tra...
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