MixedI think she's far more effective with her pros, but she is still, it's still an incredibly slow book, a slow pace.
Ship of Magic (1998)
Others: Mostly positive Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships—rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. Now the fortunes of one of Bingtown’s oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy. For Althea’s young nephew, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard the ship, the Vivacia is a life sentence. But the fate of the ship—and the Vestrits—may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider: the ruthless buccaneer captain Kennit, who plans to seize power over the Pirate Isles by capturing a liveship and bending it to his will.
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Loved itShip of magic. That's that's up there. That's going to be right there. This represents the Live Ship Trader series, not realm of the other things. The each book in that series is five stars.
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Not a fanthis book just felt like straight misery and torture through the entire book ... I absolutely hated it ... Liv ship Traders is not for me
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Loved itof magic is going here I love Robin hob I love all of her series it's a really close race between the live ship Trader series the first one being the ship of magic another alltime fave
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Loved itthis is part of the realm of the elderlings by Robin hob it is the first book in the what is it called the Liv ship Traders Trilogy... this second Trilogy which feels so separate from the fit story is the best of the realm of the adings it's just wonderful
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Loved itThis was great. It's chunky and there are parts I would never call it slow, but her books are always in-depth character studies in addition to really interesting worlds and like different dynamics and everything.
Loved iti chose ship of magic by robin hobb and even though i have read another robin hobb book i knew how beautiful her prose was but oh man this book is not only my favorite read of 2020 i actually kind of think it's my favorite fantasy book of all time
Loved itYou can start with Ship of Magic if you want to skip Farseer. ... This series is more like a fantasy family drama where this family has so many awful things happen to it. ... And it's just so good.