Notes
(Started 11/7/26. Partially to escape an emotionally draining week. Stress fracture in foot; midterm elections; the Blue Tsunami!; "All Quiet on the Western Front." So much up and down.)
FitzChivalry Farseer returns! Except now, he's Tom Badgerlock, a quiet man caring for a small farm and an "adopted" son Hap, along with his "pet wolf" Nighteyes. For nearly fifteen years since he helped save the Six Duchies during the Red Ship Wars, Fitz has disappeared into this uneventful life, considered to be dead by almost everyone who knew him in his youth. Almost no one knows the heroic and sacrificial things he did for the kingdom, but he's okay with that.
Until figures from that deep past start showing up at his farm: His original mentor, the man who trained him to be an assassin for the old king; A minstrel who knows much about his past but not all, and who has provided companionship now and then through the years; and finally the Fool, the one surviving member of those years long ago who knows the whole story. Fitz isn't interested in rejoining them, not at all.
Until the news comes that young Prince Dutiful of the Kingdom has gone missing. As much as he wants to stay out of the world of royalty, Fitz can't say no to a plea that he help find the prince who is, in some ways, his son.
Bad things happen in this story, but the worst of them aren't surprising. There's a bit of a tie-in to the Liveship Traders books, making Hobb's world even more compelling.
And who - and what - is the Fool, anyway? I see adventure, heartache and joy ahead, and I can't wait!
(I almost regret the promise I made to myself to read a non-Hobb book between each two of hers, to make them last longer.)
FitzChivalry Farseer returns! Except now, he's Tom Badgerlock, a quiet man caring for a small farm and an "adopted" son Hap, along with his "pet wolf" Nighteyes. For nearly fifteen years since he helped save the Six Duchies during the Red Ship Wars, Fitz has disappeared into this uneventful life, considered to be dead by almost everyone who knew him in his youth. Almost no one knows the heroic and sacrificial things he did for the kingdom, but he's okay with that.
Until figures from that deep past start showing up at his farm: His original mentor, the man who trained him to be an assassin for the old king; A minstrel who knows much about his past but not all, and who has provided companionship now and then through the years; and finally the Fool, the one surviving member of those years long ago who knows the whole story. Fitz isn't interested in rejoining them, not at all.
Until the news comes that young Prince Dutiful of the Kingdom has gone missing. As much as he wants to stay out of the world of royalty, Fitz can't say no to a plea that he help find the prince who is, in some ways, his son.
Bad things happen in this story, but the worst of them aren't surprising. There's a bit of a tie-in to the Liveship Traders books, making Hobb's world even more compelling.
And who - and what - is the Fool, anyway? I see adventure, heartache and joy ahead, and I can't wait!
(I almost regret the promise I made to myself to read a non-Hobb book between each two of hers, to make them last longer.)