Publication Date: March 2nd, 1998 ( Ship of Magic), November 19th, 1998 ( The Mad Ship), August 1st, 2000 ( Ship of Destiny)ĭate Read: December 29th, 2021 – January 6th, 2022 Page Count: 880 ( Ship of Magic) + 906 ( The Mad Ship) + 903 ( Ship of Destiny) = 2,689, and I would gladly have read thousands more if Robin Hobb had given them to me 🤗 Series: The Liveship Traders (second trilogy in The Realm of the Elderlings) Plus, we finally got some answers to my Elderling questions! Of course, those have given me new questions in return, but I’ll take that any day! After all, I still have quite a few Robin Hobb books do get to, and it wouldn’t do if I didn’t have anything to look forward to, right? (Did I ever mention that, when I was in elementary school, the neighborhood kids, my siblings, and I used to play pirates on our back porch almost every day? Well, that major obsession came back vividly while I was reading this 🤩) The world was so cool and unique, and I love how much of the plot took place on ships! The complex political and moral questions that the story explored left me glued to the pages, so that I somehow ended up more sleep-deprived on January 6th than on January 1st. I simply loved everything! The characters were amazing, and I have rarely come across character development done as well as it was done here. The series consumed me, heart and soul, and I see no faults with it whatsoever. The romantic subplots drove me to absolute frustration, and the ending wasn’t exactly overwhelming, either.īut The Liveship Traders? One word: Perfection. But, despite me loving it, I can’t deny that the Farseer Trilogy also has its flaws. I absolutely adore this series, beyond the bounds of normal adoration 🥰 Of course, this may not come as a big surprise, seeing that I already love the Farseer Trilogy so much. That much amazingness just doesn’t strike all at once. If you had told me that I would ever start a new reading year with three five-star books in a row, I would have laughed and said you were crazy.

“Maulkin abruptly heaved himself out of his wallow with a wild thrash that left the atmosphere hanging thick with particles.”

Liveship traders trilogy review