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Submitted by Daniel Shaw
(Dec 04, 2000)

Well...I am about two thirds the way into Assassins quest. What can I say..its exellent!!! Marvellous. There have been few books that have really made me sit up and take note in the fantasy genre..and belive me I have read an awful lot of fantasy fiction. Hobb is exellent. Her writing style leads me into a sense of the over all mysticism and awe of her world without being to cliche (OH NO! Not another abandoned boy who become king of the world again!!!)Magic is dealt with in a way I havn't encountered befor...does anyone else think the skill is allmost like some kind of psychic power? Its also great to see NORMAL names being used in a fantasy genre (I am sick of trying to figure out how to pronounce names like GRazkaccqreth the wizard!!!) The onle series that I have enjoyed since this book is Tad Williams Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. If you get a chance..read either and slip away for a few hours!I speak truth to you..I cannot explain what I do not fully understand myself!-FitzChivalry...The Assassins Quest.

Greeting.

I continuously read good words about Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy. Well, I will be the fist maybe who will not writte "good words" about this trilogy.

The first volume whas ok. It wasn't something great, no, but ok. You could see a boy growing up, learning, and finaly, at the book's end, he must go on a quest. He barely manages to complete it, but he is victorius, nontheless.

The second volume (IMHO) wasn't good at all. At first the hero is almost creeple, sick. Then he has one failure on top of the other. And, in the end, he gets smashed, and he almost dies. In sort, he is *crawling* in the *whole* book! I don't know about other people, but I don't like the hero crawling in a whole book -and It *was* a very large book. My opinion is he should have used his training in the first book to fight back. But in the second volume the training is like it never was!

So, I read the 3rd volume, thinking "In this book there will be some good stuff, finaly!..." But no! The 3rd book continues as the 2nd. If anything, the hero is more ignorant, more boy, more fool than in the first two books. And the ending is more disapointing than anything. Except that no-one recognizes what the hero has done, when the Elderling are released, all are suddenly ok! Like you press a button and -beeeep!- everything is nice again! I got bored reading and reading meaningless pages, and the end was -what? -10-20 pages?

No,I didn't like this trilogy at all. It depressed me, if nothing else. And what will you say now? It is *realistic*? Ha! I don't want realism -I want *fantasy* -yes, true fantasy! And I want the hero to be in charge, at least in the end...

Hello

I read the review of an anonymous who says he feels bitter at the ending of the trilogy and hoped for a different ending.

I totally disagree. It was probably the best ending in a fantasy book ever. No sentimentel home-comings, no glory. Nothing, Brilliant. Fitz goes into the history of the Duchies as the bastard son who kept Chivalry of the throne, which was explained in the first chapter of the first book.

I loved this book...

I'm rather dissapointed in the most recent review of Robin Hobb's book Assassin's Quest. The reviewer seemed to feel that the ending spoiled the entire book. I disagree; from the very opening of Assassin's Apprentice, Fitz's fate is heavily hinted at. The ending fits the style of the three books; nothing is guaranteed, help often goes unrewarded. While he has a purpose in his existence, he was not meant to be seen. It's not noble, it's not happy, but it's what he's been conditioned to, what he feels is a continuation of his life.
Personally, Assassin's Quest is my favorite in the trilogy; promises are kept, in more ways than one. Rogin Hobb doesn't flinch from what is required, and that alone gives her my utmost respect.
For those who are still not satisfied, this is not the end of Fitz's saga. Even if she refrains from writing and publishing the continuation, rest assured that she has allotted him a different fate.

The first two books of this series was very well-written despite my doubts but the ending to this trilogy
leaves me feeling bitter. It's because there's nothing left to Fitz in life. I suppose some see it as a
noble sacrifice or that he heals but the ending just seems wrong for the type of series that this one is.
I'm not saying that it should have been a happy one where he ends up with Molly but something where he
still has substance to his life. Can't wait to forget this one. A terrible waste to what is otherwise
two very good books.