It is baffling how talented Robin Hobb is. It is definitely one of my favourite reads of 2022 and is arguable my favourite Hobb book. That being said, I LOVED this book so much.

However, my opinion about the reading order might change when I have read the other two books. However, the whole cast is new, and this story is set far away from the events in The Farseer trilogy. This book has some VERY minor hints to the events in The Farseer trilogy. So what did I think?įirstly, let me start by saying that judging only from Ship of Magic, I can’t see any reasons why this book couldn’t be a good starting point to The Realm of the Elderlings.

I have frequently heard that The Liveship Traders is even better than Farseer, which made me excited to read it. The Liveship Traders trilogy is one of my priority series to read and finish in 2022.

Compact Disc (February 22nd, 2010): $82.Last year I read The Farseer trilogy and fell in love with Hobb’s writing, character work and world-building.

But her chief virtue is that she delineates character extremely well.” - Interzone Product Details plotting is complex but tightly controlled, and her descriptive powers match her excellent visual imagination. one of the finest fantasy sagas to bridge the millennium.” - Publishers Weekly “A major work of high fantasy, reading like a cross between Tolkien and Patrick O’Brian. The characterizations are consistently superb, and animates everything with love for and knowledge of the sea.” - Booklist Robin Hobb’s books are diamonds in a sea of zircons.” -George R. Praise for Robin Hobb and the Liveship Traders Trilogy The characterizations are consistently superb, and animates everything with love for and knowledge of the sea.”- Booklistĭon’t miss the magic of the Liveship Traders Trilogy: But the fate of the ship-and the Vestrits-may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider: the ruthless buccaneer captain Kennit, who plans to seize power over the Pirate Isles by capturing a liveship and bending it to his will. For Althea’s young nephew, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard the ship, the Vivacia is a life sentence.

Now the fortunes of one of Bingtown’s oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia.įor Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy. Martinīingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships-rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. “Even better than the Farseer Trilogy-I didn’t think that was possible.”-George R. The first novel in Robin Hobb’s beloved Liveship Traders Trilogy

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