Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, Vol. 1)
Robin Hobb · 1995
FitzChivalry Farseer, the royal bastard trained as an assassin, is the most emotionally rich protagonist in epic fantasy. Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings is a world where people are psychologically real, which makes everything that happens to them devastating.
The case against
Hobb starts slow and stays slow: most of this volume is a boyhood of stable chores, lessons, and court snubs before the assassin plot earns its title. Fitz suffers, then suffers more, a pattern the trilogy will repeat until misery becomes the weather. Readers who need momentum should know the Red Ship raiders spend most of the book offstage.
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