Truly would like to know all your opinions on this trilogy. Cause it was a MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT.
To preface with, I ABSOLUTELY LOVED the farseer trilogy and in general robin hobbs writing is extremely captivating and impressive in general. However for some reason towards the end of this trilogy her writing became completely flawed.
With the ending of Assassins Quest, the death of regal and most other plot lines got fast tracked and it was a semi abrupt ending. However considering that book is a single pov it’s understandable that it ended like such. It’s not as if we could see and hear other people’s stories. UNLIKE THE LIVESHIP TRILOGY.
1)Ship of magic
Pretty good book overall. The introduction of each character and getting to know their personalities was impressive. Nothing huge to fault this book on. The absolute hatred you feel for Kyle and having the same feeling of betrayal Althea felt was beautiful writing. Malta’s annoying bratty personality and Wintrow’s hapless situation were great contrasts.
2)Mad Ship
Overall not a memorable book for me. More of a placeholder book in my opinion. Serilla’s entrance into the story was great and the whole sequence of her travel to bingtown with the satrap was beautifully written. When the satrap and serilla had a stand off which finally culminated to her getting lifelong trauma was paced and written well, along with the whole pimp my ride plot line for the paragon
- Ship Of Destiny
This is where it all falls apart.
**\*Kennit.** Kind of like an antihero (mainly cause of him getting rid of Kyle and somewhat treating wintrow well) is completely turned into a despicable vermin, albeit cause of his past trauma. And how was this whole sequence of character development treated at the end ?
By doing nothing. Homie was stabbed by a random. Volleyballed to a ship which he didn’t love as much as the ship did just to die on it. He came into the story as a generic pirate captain, developed all throughout the trilogy into a father esque figure and finally a rapist (That everyone simply seems to forget except for the victim) just to be killed like nothing less than an afterthought with absolutely no closure for the many victims of his actions (Althea, Etta, Mother).
For a main character who had multiple povs to just die like that is utterly disappointing.
Pretty much the same thing for kyle as well. Kyle dying like a nobody is understandable since he is simply a character with zero values and deserves a death such as that.
**\*Wintrow.** Can someone please explain to me from what corner of the world this priest BOY became a man to lead the pirates during and after battle ??
Him standing up for Kennit previously in divvytown was also extremely abrupt and out of nowhere. However his speech during the sequence made up for it and made it excusable. But him leading a whole pirate fleet ? All the captains voting unanimously for him to lead ? I mean where did that come from.
**\*Keffria.** In her final POV she mentions that she's being considered to be the head honcho of the bingtown council. Bro HOW.
She who remembers was simply just killed off screen even though wintrow a MAIN character literally threw his life to save her.
Maulkin who we've read about for hundreds of pages was completely set aside.
For a book that is made up of 900 pages it is truly a wonder how the entire culmination was cramped into a big ball of nothingness.
For someone who is a HUGE robin hobb fan this book was an utter dissapointment.
I'd really like to know all your opinions on the trilogy and if it truly left you satisfied after all the time invested on it. And please tell me this trilogy ACTUALLY influences the future books and does not simply die down with the Ship Of Destiny.