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Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)
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Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)

Duchess Nicole's review

Sep 02, 2011

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bookshelves: e-pcs, genre-manly-authors, genre-fantasy, 3-star-read, abuse, angsty, big-thinker-book, cliffhanger-crap, epic, highly-rated, interesting, lessons-learned, read-in-2016, romantic-elements, with-a-twist, z-audiobooks, library

I'm not sure how I feel about this series/book. I kind of get into the middle of the book and start metaphorically leaning forward, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Only I lean forward for a really long time, only to get shoved violently backward at the ending. So disorienting. Like...what the actual hell just happened? Is the series going an entirely new direction?

Poor Fitz. Kid can't catch a break. Poor Verity. Poor Shrewd. Poor Chade. Poor Molly. Poor Burich. Poor Patience. Poor everyone. I'm depressed :(

Pardon spelling errors. I'm audiobooking this one.

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Reading Progress

September 2, 2011 – Shelved

September 2, 2011 – Shelved as: e-pcs

September 2, 2011 – Shelved as: genre-manly-authors

August 13, 2012 – Shelved as: genre-fantasy

September 25, 2015 – Shelved as: tbr-next-up-1

February 4, 2016 – Started Reading

February 4, 2016 –

20.0% "Finally got this back from my library. I'm listening to the audio...25 CDs...but the narrator is amazing and it's worth the time spent. I feel like this book is more straightforward than book one, and it jumps right into the action. LOVING the way Fitz has grown up and I'm so anxious as to what's coming up for him."

March 2, 2016 –

100.0% "What in the crap kind of ending is that?! What just happened?!"

March 2, 2016 – Shelved as: 3-star-read

March 2, 2016 – Shelved as: abuse

March 2, 2016 – Shelved as: angsty

March 2, 2016 – Shelved as: big-thinker-book

March 2, 2016 – Shelved as: cliffhanger-crap

March 2, 2016 – Shelved as: epic

March 2, 2016 – Shelved as: highly-rated

March 2, 2016 – Shelved as: interesting

March 2, 2016 – Shelved as: lessons-learned

March 2, 2016 – Shelved as: read-in-2016