![]() ![]() But I’m always curious to see how authors justify (or don’t) their narrators’ supposed ability to perfectly recreate moments and dialogue from the past. ![]() I had been young, I excused myself, and who does not put himself in the best possible light when he presents his tale …?” Given that Bee’s sections are in first-person as well, and that Fitz frequently burns his journal entries, we’re left with the impression that Hobb is a compiler rather than an author, salvaging her subjects’ writings as best she can and then arranging them-along with excerpts from relevant authorities-into a coherent manuscript. It was strange to see Fitz so domestic in this book but he stayed so true to character and as usual, I hurt so. ![]() So much yet so very very little happened in the book which left me unsatisfied. ![]() “There were a few years where I fancied myself quite the hero,” he says at one point, “and other times when I saw myself as star-crossed and unjustly oppressed by my life … perhaps I had not been as honest … as I might have been. Fools Assassin (2014) review 1: As excited as I was to return to the World of Fitz and the Fool, this book was strange and a little disappointing to me. I also enjoyed the part where Fitz questions his reliability as a narrator. She gives us Bee, a great new character, and we get to see the world from her point of view. While Fitzs narrative continues in The Tawny Man Trilogy, the Liveship Traders Trilogy is next in the chronology of the Realm of the Elderlings. It follows the exploits of FitzChivalry Farseer. We’re still talking about Robin Hobb, after all. Assassins Quest is a 1997 fantasy novel by American writer Robin Hobb, the third and final book in The Farseer Trilogy. None of this is to say that I hated Fool’s Assassin. ![]()
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