Re-Read Review: Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

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Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

Published: 27th March 2014 | Publisher: HarperVoyager | Source: Bought
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The kingdom of the Six Duchies is on the brink of civil war when news breaks that the crown prince has fathered a bastard son and is shamed into abdication. The child's name is Fitz, and he is despised.

Raised in the castle stables, only the company of the king's fool, the ragged children of the lower city, and his unusual affinity with animals provide Fitz with any comfort.

To be useful to the crown, Fitz is trained as an assassin; and to use the traditional magic of the Farseer family. But his tutor, allied to another political faction, is determined to discredit, even kill him. Fitz must survive: for he may be destined to save the kingdom. From The StoryGraph.

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Trigger/Content Warnings: This book features child abuse, drug use/addiction, regerence to rape, abuse, misogyny, violence against women, animal cruelty/animal death, references to suicide, suicidal ideation, child abuse, ableist language, eference to paefophilia, and regerence to abuse of the disabled.

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Review: The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb

The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb



Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin,
and Assassin's Quest
The illegitimate son of former King-in-Waiting Chivalry, and a secret user of the Wit - the abhorred beast magic which allows the user to bond with animals - Fitz is trained up to be a royal assassin. As he is raised being educated in quiet work, the Six Duchies is attacked by Red Ship Raiders, who take townspeople hostage only to return them soulless. With only the Skill - the royal magic that allows those who have it the ability to communicate telepathically and control the minds of others - wielded by current King-in-Waiting Verity, as their only defence against the Red Ships, the fate of the Six Duchies looks bleak. Only the help of the mythical Elderlings can help them, if they even actually exist.

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