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WoGF Review: Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
For Lynn Williams (lynnsbooks) books are much more than a hobby or a pastime they’re really an obsession. If she’s not reading a book, she’s talking about books on her blog, Lynn’s Book Blog, or deciding which books to buy next. Lynn reads all sorts of books, sometimes straying into YA, but her first love is fantasy. Recently she started to cross into science fiction thanks to the suggestions of some very excellent bloggers.
As part of my WWE Women of Genre Fiction reading challenge my book for April was the first in Robin Hobb‘s acclaimed Farseer Trilogy, Assassin’s Apprentice. I absolutely loved this book in fact I probably won’t be able to do it justice here! For the past three days I’ve been living in this world and resenting all the natural little breaks from reading such as going to work, sleeping and other general, everyday minutiae that have come between me and the story. The characters and the world building together with such an intriguing plot have totally captivated me. In fact, I have no hesitation in saying that if you enjoy Rothfuss, Martin and Lynch you can’t fail to love this and as far as I’m concerned that’s some pretty damn fine praise right there.
The story brings to us, and is told by, Fitz (or boy or bastard as he is equally as often called). No prizes here then for guessing that Fitz’s arrival at Buckeep Castle was not a cause for celebration for many of the inhabitants. Fitz was born out of wedlock, son to a King in Waiting and the result of a brief liaison to a now long forgotten woman. At the start of the story, and being one of the earliest recollections that Fitz can recall, he is being delivered, rather unceremoniously, to the Castle which King Shrewd reins. His Grandfather thinks it’s time for the father of the child to have a hand in his upbringing.
