liveship traders – Cannonball Read 17

Such Compelling Characters

Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb

August 29, 2025 by Tracy Leave a Comment

cbr17bingo: favorite (completes my first BINGO) I don’t think Robin Hobb can fully turn me into a wholehearted lover of multiple POV storytelling, but if anyone can, it will be her. I got frustrated each time the POV shifted because I wasn’t ready to be done with the one I was currently reading, and each time I was very quickly sucked into the new one. While I still had favorite and less preferred character POVs, each was still compelling in their own way. Robin Hobb writes […]

Expansion of Serpent Lore

Mad Ship by Robin Hobb

July 16, 2025 by Tracy 2 Comments

cbr17bingo: green This book took me on an emotional ride that was worth every moment. We continue to spend time with the same characters as the first book—the Vestrit and Haven families, Kennit, and Brashen—plus one of the Rain Wilders and a Companion of the Satrap. We also get more time with Amber and Paragon, which I loved. The characters are adjusting to the new and evolving situations in which they find themselves. Malta remained intensely frustrating for a large chunk of the book, as […]

Are All of Robin Hobb’s Books a Masterclass in Writing?

Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb

May 28, 2025 by Tracy 3 Comments

While I don’t mind multiple POV books, I generally prefer single POV. This book, though, masterfully demonstrates just how useful multiple POV can be. It was so different from the Farseer trilogy in which we’re always in Fitz’s head, and the emotions are unrelenting. In Ship of Magic, when you need a break from the drama with one character, there’s a different character whose drama you can jump into! It’s written in the 3rd person, but don’t expect that to spare you from the author’s toying with your […]

“Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.”

The Mad Ship (Liveship Traders, #2) by Robin Hobb

December 30, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

This book does what it wants. I kept trying to read it faster than it wanted me to read it, and it took me twice as long as I thought it would. Not because it was bad, but because it was Too Much and I kept having to stop and process things. Also, sometimes when books stress me out I have to put them down because who knows what fool thing is going to happen next, and that was also going on here as well. […]

I fell in love with this book a little.

Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1) by Robin Hobb

September 15, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

I will be honest, I went into this book with as open a mind as I could muster, but I did not really expect to like it that much. This is because I did not end up liking the Farseer Trilogy very much at all, for a variety of reasons (despite having rated the first book in that series four stars, which I should honestly revisit and lower). Ironically, I went into those books fully expecting to love them. But much to my surprise, and […]

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