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A review by heddas_bookgems
Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb
5.0
“One moment the sky above me was empty. Then there was a great golden light on everything and the noise of great wings beating, like the whirring of a pheasant’s wings in flight.”
In Assassins Quest we follow Fitz, in his, with interspersed feelings of revenge, adventure. Trying to save the Six Duchies from his brutal uncle Regal.
My last review for the already finished Readathon: my buddyread with @booksandrollercoasters, Assassins Quest. I know that quite a few fantasy readers don’t like this last installment of the Farseer Trilogy. And I get the criticism. It’s a chunker (this book is even bigger than Royal Assassin), it’s maybe even too long, it’s overly descriptive and the pacing is slow, to very slow. And yet… I never had the feeling reading a book thinking “I don’t want it to end!” until now. Because I simply adore these characters. They are forever embedded in my heart. The always so loyal and even funny wolf Nighteyes, the grumpy ‘old’ Burrich with his heart of gold, the newly introduced mysterious, but so quirky, Lady Kettle and the charming minstrel Starling and off course the philosophical Fool and Fitz himself.
Besides, the book knew to surprise me with answers to questions I wanted to see answered and even discussing themes like gender, which I didn’t expected in high fantasy from the nineties.
Did we get all the answers or were the answers elaborate. Maybe not, but where others might see plotholes I see potential for more exploration of the Elderling Universe. And to be honest I can’t wait to dive into this universe again.
In Assassins Quest we follow Fitz, in his, with interspersed feelings of revenge, adventure. Trying to save the Six Duchies from his brutal uncle Regal.
My last review for the already finished Readathon: my buddyread with @booksandrollercoasters, Assassins Quest. I know that quite a few fantasy readers don’t like this last installment of the Farseer Trilogy. And I get the criticism. It’s a chunker (this book is even bigger than Royal Assassin), it’s maybe even too long, it’s overly descriptive and the pacing is slow, to very slow. And yet… I never had the feeling reading a book thinking “I don’t want it to end!” until now. Because I simply adore these characters. They are forever embedded in my heart. The always so loyal and even funny wolf Nighteyes, the grumpy ‘old’ Burrich with his heart of gold, the newly introduced mysterious, but so quirky, Lady Kettle and the charming minstrel Starling and off course the philosophical Fool and Fitz himself.
Besides, the book knew to surprise me with answers to questions I wanted to see answered and even discussing themes like gender, which I didn’t expected in high fantasy from the nineties.
Did we get all the answers or were the answers elaborate. Maybe not, but where others might see plotholes I see potential for more exploration of the Elderling Universe. And to be honest I can’t wait to dive into this universe again.