Complete Farseer Trilogy

Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest

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Robin Hobb: Complete Farseer Trilogy (2013, HarperCollins Publishers Limited)

English language

Published Jan. 2, 2013 by HarperCollins Publishers Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-00-753148-6
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4 stars (37 reviews)

2 editions

Review of 'The Complete Farseer Trilogy' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I really really struggled with the second book in this trilogy and there are only two reasons I even picked up the third one.

1. I already owned it. The whole trilogy came to my Kindle in a sort of omnibus-y deal.
2. I've already attempted to get through this trilogy once before, and I'm so not going to be giving it up at the same place a second time. Even if I'm not going to finish, I'll get a little farther.

So I pressed on. I have to admit that in spite of a very shaky start, the book has started to catch my interest a bit as I reached the middle. Which is probably the most interest I've managed to muster at all through this. One of the problems I had with the second book was that it was a very long and nothing really happened. Stuff happened …

Review of 'The Complete Farseer Trilogy' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Great, although not as good as Royal Assassin. I still read it unreasonably quickly considering it was 700 pages.

The plot was weirdly meandering - the first part of the book is fantastic and driven, but it suddenly shifts gears and becomes almost a different book. The pacing is just awkward starting about a quarter of the way through and never really improves.

The "quest" part drags - it's hard to stay invested in the post-Skill Road part of the book. I still enjoyed that portion for its emotional resonance, but it was a long way to get there. Although the threat of the coterie never goes away, it generally becomes less frightening. I also didn't love the development of Regal: in RA he managed to be smart and conniving rather than strictly powerful and I may have preferred that.

RA had this great feeling of sinking, a mounting dread …

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