[allanon]

Well,now I'm reading "Assasin's Apprentice" by Robin Hobb and I must say that she is really good,with wonderful characters[are you listening,FitzChivlary?] and great storyplot.Also,I'm very happy that "Farseer Trilogy" is trilogy,not a saga of 2587 books.
This is good modern fantasy.

[FitzChivalry]

Heh, thanx allanon, but i'm not really the guy from the books, i just stole his name and i'm using it to take over the world.

[Habeed]

ya, the characters (especially Fitz himself) are PHENOMENAL. Reading book 3, you really have a sense of epic scope as the story has covered Fitz's ENTIRE LIFE. But it can be sort of depressing as you know Fitz is going to have an unhappy ending right from the start and the action gets a little slow in some parts where Fitz basically watches helplessly as the bad guys take over. (Actually, that happens a lot)

[Lotus]

Yes, Hobb is indeed one of my favourites too ... though I must say that the Farseer Trilogy at times sounded like one long undending dirge .. by the time I finished reading it, I could almost hear morunful violins playing elegiac music in the background ..

Liveships is just as good when taken as a whole .. the key difference is there is no one person you can truly hate, and no single person you have got to cheer...

I will certainly wait for more of her novels (Tawny Man ?).. hope she goes back to Rain Traders, dragons and the buried cities some time ...

[Lady Fox]

I agree with Lotus. The Farseer books are good but kind of depressing. The Liveship books have a lighter tone and are a more enjoyable read. However, both series have merit and are good fantasy books.

[Eventine]

Did anyone else think that the Liveship books were a bit too convenient? Maybe it was because I read them straight after Farseer, but it did appear that:

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Everyting finished up too neatly. Everyone got together as couples. All the people who were acting like morons woke up to themselves. Basically, it was very fairytalish - everybody lived happily ever after.
This grated a bit after reading Farseer. Where I would give the Farseer book 8.5 out of 10, I would only give Liveships 7.

I still loved them though, and she handled some excellent concepts quite admirably.

[Cadfael]

Just goes to show you can't please everybody, one of the major gripes about 'Farseer' I have read on this forum is that some things where left unfinished, and the 'sad ending'.

[lacorte]

Hi,

Are the Farseer books better than the Liveship books? I was reading these and got to the end of book two and didn't feel the need to get book three. I normally read books that grip my imagination and I just can't wait to get the next book. However the Liveship books were alright, and I will read book three, it's just that i don't find them exciting enough to run down the shops to get the next one.

[Barbarossa]

Iacorte, they are very different at least, some prefer LT others FS, depends on your taste. Fs is certainly darker, it's also writeen in first person, some people like that, others don't.

[Yan Silversword]

Yeah, book one was great http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif We shall see how the story goes in the next 2.
Btw I've heard something about new Farseers book coming this year..."Fools Errand" or something like that, I'm not certain