Author: Robin Hobb
Category: Book Trilogy
Company/Publisher: Bantrum Spectra
Cost: $6.99
Page count: Varies
Capsule Review by Nostradamus on 03/24/99.
Genre tags: Fantasy

Robin Hobb's the farseer series is one of the finest series of books i've read in quite some time. The story begins as a nameless boy is given into the care of his father, the prince and king in waiting. The boy is a bastard, and has no memory of his life before this day.

However, this isn't a review so much as my personal feelings of the series. As I mentioned before this is one of the best set of books i've read in some time, it's told in the first person, which i'm not a huge fan of, but I thorougly enjoyed the perspective in these books. What i'd like to say, though, is that this has a very dissapointing ending in my opinion.

I just am not happy with how Fitz refused to let those who loved him know that he was still alive. I simply can't believe that he chose to live in seclusion rather than reuniting with those he loved, those who raised him. His mother in law, the man who was father to him more than any other, even his own daughter. He was one of the greatest heroes, if not the greatest, of his era; and you think that he would want to let his daughter know who her father truly was, not just that he was the bastard son of a royal prince who was more loyal to his king than to the woman who should have been his wife and was the mother of his child.

Anyway I just felt I had to express my feelings somewhere. I recommend this series highly to anyone who has the slightest interest in fantasy novels.

Style: 5 (Excellent!)
Substance: 5 (Excellent!)