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A review by scroggin_cooper
Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb
4.0
4.5/5
This one was a bit difficult, on the one hand, there are parts of this book that are unbearably slow and cause me great pain, but on the other hand, the last 100 pages are objectively some of the best writing Hobb has ever committed to.
The best place to start would be with the characters. The thing that Hobb truly excels at. Fitz is still fantastic, he's probably in my top twenty fantasy characters at this point. I love having a character that makes god-awful decisions, but I can understand where they are coming from. The same goes for Riddle, a character I really had no idea how much I would learn to like over the course of this novel. Chade's acting a little strange, which I suppose is normal for him, but he's being extra weird and cryptic this time around.
The book ends in a spectacular fashion that gets me even more excited to pick up Fool's Quest.
This one was a bit difficult, on the one hand, there are parts of this book that are unbearably slow and cause me great pain, but on the other hand, the last 100 pages are objectively some of the best writing Hobb has ever committed to.
The best place to start would be with the characters. The thing that Hobb truly excels at. Fitz is still fantastic, he's probably in my top twenty fantasy characters at this point. I love having a character that makes god-awful decisions, but I can understand where they are coming from. The same goes for Riddle, a character I really had no idea how much I would learn to like over the course of this novel. Chade's acting a little strange, which I suppose is normal for him, but he's being extra weird and cryptic this time around.
The book ends in a spectacular fashion that gets me even more excited to pick up Fool's Quest.