The 2nd one (Royal Assassin) may be my favorite of her Fitz stories. I'd say overall, but the Liveship trilogy is fantastic in it's own right. Don't skip those btw.,, There are 3 main trilogies with Fitz and the fool, and then a side trilogy (well, one is 4 books) in between each. So yea... it's 16 books overall. But well worth the journey. The 4 book series was the only one I didn't like as I found it extremely repetitive and the themes and points obvious and overstated, but a rare miss and adds needed context to the grand finale trilogy. It's an easy series to take breaks in between as well. The stories are pretty 'small' and aren't like your typical epic fantasy where you have to remember an absurd amount or you feel lost.
I have Ship Of Magic in my Kindle library so I'll probably get onto that after I finish the Farseer trilogy
this might be my Year of Hobb. I have Liveship, Fitz and the Fool and Tawny Man all on my shelves after finishing Farseer last year
We all have our favorites and Hobb is mine, so i hope to see some of ya'll read it and post your thoughts :) For me... the day is finally here! I kicked the video games for a minute and finished my Disquiet Gods reread and I'm finally on to Shadows of Time! Can't wait. It'll probably take 2-3 weeks but I'll probably post a long rambling post with final thoughts when done.
Well of Ascension, the second book, remains one of my favorites of the genre. Glad you're enjoying the series so far!
In fantasy news, yinz are sleeping on Bradley P. Beaulieu I think. Good proper epic high fantasy. He's put out multiple series and has a new trilogy for which book two just came out. I just finished it and it's excellent.
I started Twelve Kings in Sharakhai and enjoyed it and am not sure why I DN'f and have it on my list to go back. I also didn't know it'd grown to so many books and novellas. Looks like there's 6 main entries and a handful of shorts. Is there newer or a better work to start with?
Yeah that one’s a big series (I’ve only read the first), and he had a series before that I need to get to as well. Might be good to start with his newest instead? It’s a trilogy called The Book of the Holt, two novels and a novella out so far, the second novel came out like a month ago. Book one is called The Dragons of Deepwood Fen. I’ve really been loving it.
Been going through some indies for a book club. I read Ascendant, book one of the Songs of Chaos series by Michael Miller. Pretty good YA-adjacent dragon rider story with a hard magic system. Currently reading Umbra by Amber Toro, book one in the Sentient Stars series. I don't read sci-fi but this has me interested so far, I'm only at about 12% in so far.
I read the prequel novella to Songs of Chaos a year or two ago and liked it. Still need to get to the actual series. I've heard good things about Amber Toro too. She's local to me and I said hi to her at a big signing event I was a part of last year. She seems cool.
Finished The Tainted Cup. Amazing world, not quite sure why you’d set detective stories in it instead. Had a lot of fun nonetheless, but also don’t understand what exactly makes it Hugo worthy. But I also think most Hugo winners aren’t that great so what do I know.
I finished Red Rising last night. The pacing was so breakneck before they entered the Institute that it felt like it dragged when they were actually there. Kinda felt like Brown was trying/asked by the publisher to capitalize on the popularity of Hunger Games, and I think it brought the book down. The politics and characterizations were impressive, though. I'm excited to read on.
His new standalone Operation Bounce House released today. Started the audio. It's fine so far. Not sure I care for Travis Baldree's narration, but I'm only a few chapters in.
https://patreon.com/dinniman?utm_me...mpaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link Matt releases chapters as he writes them and put up an epub of the finished product on his Patreon. Matt's Patreon members also vote on fanboxes that he uses in the books along with other things such as who gave the summary of the last book in the new one.
Yup the full thing in epub with chapters and everything. I always read first then do the audiobooks personally so this works for me.
I'm having an odd experience with a book, and I'm curious if anyone else has found themselves in a similar predicament: I'm reading a book with three POV characters, and I am absolutely loving the sections for two of them, but the sections for the third character are a slog. Every time a chapter ends and I get to the new heading I am dreading it being one of the sections for that character. I am hoping I'll warm up to these sections, because that part of the story is interesting, but I'm halfway through the book right now and the discrepancy between levels of enjoyment is pretty noticeable.
I know I've had that experience before, though I couldn't say offhand what books it was. I think I generally just power through, allow myself to do a little more skimming of the sections I'm not liking as much, focus on how that part of the plot affects the other stuff I like. I can't think of a time when I just thought the slog character was a bad part of the book, though. Like I always felt it was important to the story, and not a mistake by the author, just something I really didn't vibe with.