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I Got Those Mid-Trilogy Volume Blues
Oct. 1st, 2005 08:13 pm20 Sep 2005
The Golden Fool - Robin Hobb - Voyager 2002
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Of the current crop of big commercial fantasy writers, Robin Hobb is probably the best. Her series The Liveship Traders is quite simply the most entertaining three-decker fantasy I have read in a very long while. I have never had quite as much time for her Assassin series with the self-pitying Fitz (too many shades of Thomas Covenant for my taste), and I must admit that my heart sank when I saw Fool's Errand, the first installment of a second trilogy. Nonetheless, after the pointless first two hundred pages where Fitz sits around feeling sorry for himself and characters from the previous trilogy are reintroduced with painful slowness, it developed into an entertaining "rescue the prince" quest with some nice twists and good emotional climax that left me wanting more. Well, more is certainly what we get here. Seven hundred and twelve pages of it, to be precise. And it's still an entertaining read. There's just one small problem, and it is this: NOTHING HAPPENS.
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The Golden Fool - Robin Hobb - Voyager 2002
* * *
Of the current crop of big commercial fantasy writers, Robin Hobb is probably the best. Her series The Liveship Traders is quite simply the most entertaining three-decker fantasy I have read in a very long while. I have never had quite as much time for her Assassin series with the self-pitying Fitz (too many shades of Thomas Covenant for my taste), and I must admit that my heart sank when I saw Fool's Errand, the first installment of a second trilogy. Nonetheless, after the pointless first two hundred pages where Fitz sits around feeling sorry for himself and characters from the previous trilogy are reintroduced with painful slowness, it developed into an entertaining "rescue the prince" quest with some nice twists and good emotional climax that left me wanting more. Well, more is certainly what we get here. Seven hundred and twelve pages of it, to be precise. And it's still an entertaining read. There's just one small problem, and it is this: NOTHING HAPPENS.
( Read more... )