u/AnchorsRipley

So I came across the Farseer trilogy after being in a pretty bad reading slump where nothing was really sticking for me. Picked up the first book and absolutely devoured it. I loved the atmosphere, the worldbuilding, Fitz as a character, the mystery around the Skill and the Wit, all of it.

Royal Assassin was still really good too, but I started noticing a pattern where it felt like 90% of the book was buildup and then EVERYTHING happens in the last 30 pages.

Assassin’s Quest was exhausting for me to get through.

It honestly started feeling like:
run a little → get attacked by random people → recover → run a little more → get attacked again.

Over and over.

So many things introduced throughout the trilogy ended up feeling flat or underdeveloped to me. The Forged Ones especially. The series builds them up as this horrifying mystery and then the explanation/payoff at the end with the stone dragons just really didn’t land for me. It felt less like this huge terrifying force and more like “oh… okay, that’s it?”

I couldn’t help noticing similarities to Wheel of Time. The Skill felt very One Power-ish, the Wit reminded me a lot of Perrin’s wolfbrother abilities, and even some of the stone/traveling concepts felt familiar. None of that really bothered me on its own because fantasy always overlaps somewhere, but combined with the pacing issues and the ending, the whole trilogy just ended up falling surprisingly flat for me.

MSP-CVG today pilot aborted the landing. First time I've ever had it happened and I can say I was immediately happy knowing it wasn't done without thought of our safety. Pilot came over once circling again and said there was a strong tail wind and a plane closer than he liked on the runway and wanted more room to slow down. Loved it. Thanks gentlemen and lady in the cockpit today.