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From the author's website...
Robin Hobb graduated from the local Alaskan high school at 17, and went off to University in Denver, Colorado. She left Denver University after only a year there, returned to Fairbanks, married the commercial fisherman she had been seeing for a year, and moved with her new husband to Kodiak Island. Her first professional sale in the genre was to an anthology called AMAZONS! The story was Bones for Dulath by Megan Lindholm and was the first appearance of the characters Ki and Vandien. Currently, she lives in Tacoma, Washington. |
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Farseer | |||
The Liveship Traders | |||
The Tawny Man | |||
The Soldier Son Trilogy | |||
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2006-10-16 | |||
On the Eos Books blog there is an entry in which Robin Hobb shares with her readers where she gets some of the ideas for her books ... | |||
2006-07-22 | |||
For all you lucky people who don't live in the US, Robin Hobb's second book in the Soldier Son Trilogy - The Forest Mage - is out in the UK and probably elseware! Enjoy, while the rest of us have to wait until August! | |||
2005-08-14 | |||
I'm a bit torn on how to go about rating this book. I can't help but compare the Liveship trilogy against the Farseer trilogy. But the only true similiaries lie in the fact that it takes place in the same world, that Robin Hobb is the author, and that the stories were beautifully written.
As this is the final in the trilogy, I will give an brief review of the series, and then a few words specific to this book. In Farseer, we see almost the entire story from the perspective of Fitz. Through the Liveship trilogy we have seen the story from a myriad of different characters. This gave the book a different kind of strength, as well as a different kind of weakness. (read more) | |||
2005-07-19 | |||
Robin Hobb has a new series in the works: The Soldier Son Trilogy. The first book, Shaman's Crossing will be published July 2005 in the UK and Australia, September 2005 in the US, and sometime in 2005 in the Netherlands. The second and third of the trilogy, Forest Mage and Renegage Magic respectively, are expected in 2006 and 2007. This new trilogy is set in a different world than Farseer, The Liveship Traders, and The Tawny Man. | |||
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Average Rating:
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Reader Reviews:
December 04, 2005
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One of the best authors I have read in quite some time. Robin Hobb's writing has a more real feel to it than I think any other author I've read. Each and every one of her characters are unique (and interesting!), and any characters of any importance are very well developed. Her characters actually have flaws, and are not perfect like the heroes/heroines from many other books, and I find this refreshing. And many of the characters face problems that we can relate to on some level.
Aside from the characters, I have also found the story lines very engaging. Events that happen several books ago continue to play important roles in the stories, and I personally love that sort of consistency and depth in novels. Some authors will have something important happen, and yet later in the books the effects seem to have made little impact on the story or characters. This is not the case with Hobb - anything of importance that happens leaves it's mark, and is remembered as the story plays out. I've read all of her books but Shaman's Crossing, and I have thoroughly enjoyed each and everyone. I would put the Farseer and The Tawny Man above the The Liveship Traders, but not by much. I would highly recommend Hobb's books. |
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