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kareila_books2020-11-25 01:41 am
kareila) wrote in kareila_books2020-11-25 01:41 am
#46: Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy #1)
I can see why this has lately been marketed to fans of Game of Thrones. It is basically wall-to-wall political intrigue. At least it dodges any obvious patriarchal BS for the most part. But the whole thing with the protagonist being born to a crown prince out of wedlock, and thus never able to be more than merely tolerated anywhere in society, becomes extremely tedious.
The story paints a fairly miserable pseudo-medieval world full of loneliness and treachery. What little magic there is comes in the form of telepathy and mental manipulation. The enemies of the kingdom turn out to have a horrifying habit of removing people's emotions, leaving them little more than mindless animals afterward.
I didn't enjoy the book as much as I hoped, but I ended up caring about the characters enough to see how this trilogy ends. I don't know that I'm in for all the sequel series that follow this one, though.
The story paints a fairly miserable pseudo-medieval world full of loneliness and treachery. What little magic there is comes in the form of telepathy and mental manipulation. The enemies of the kingdom turn out to have a horrifying habit of removing people's emotions, leaving them little more than mindless animals afterward.
I didn't enjoy the book as much as I hoped, but I ended up caring about the characters enough to see how this trilogy ends. I don't know that I'm in for all the sequel series that follow this one, though.