The last time I felt this conflicted about a book was probably for The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. While trying to calm Thick within his dreams, Fitz reveals Nettle to Dutiful, who demands to understand her story and in the end, that she be taken to stay with the Queen and be kept safe. Only with the completion of this quest can the marriage proceed, and the resulting alliance signal an end to war between the two kingdoms. So, not only does he need to live with the memories of his torture but he has to leave his best friend.

So he goes about trying to being with Molly/"fulfill his promise to Burrich to care for his children" by ignoring the children and trying to pursue Molly. I must have been happy because I read all three books within a week at the cost of many hours of sleep. Fitz convinces everyone that they will use Chade's explosives to blow up the ice around the dragon and then kill it. The dragon is eventually quickened using the last of the life of Kebal Rawbread, the leader of the Red Ship Raiders.

I’m aware that this precipitates other changes in the narrative, but I can’t help wondering if that hadn’t worked better for me. But when the Fool speaks of visions of his death, Fitz is determined to keep him at Buckkeep Castle, safe.

But then, once everyone got to Aslevjal, that idea collapsed and there was no way I was putting the book down until I realized it was one in the morning and the words were swimming before my eyes and I'd stubbornly read the same paragraph five times without comprehending any of it BUT OH MAN the poor Fool had just been chained to a memory stone dragon and sentenced to a slow death by forging so how could I just calmly go to sleep after that?It is not a happy ship: tensions between the folk of the Six Duchies and their traditional enemies, the Outislanders, lie just beneath the surface. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. She's got an ability to lay down all the words and from them you can draw out a living and breathing world within your head.

Fool's Fate is a great conclusion to The Tawny Man Trilogy, after the disappointment that was Assassin's Quest I was scared this will be another even though Liveship Traders was amazing. It's leagues ahead of all others (except for The Mad Ship, also by Hobb, which was recently my favourite book.

Fool’s Fate is also the first book where I think Hobb finally nailed writing great action sequences. This book picks up not too long after the ending of book 2 when we're following Fitz, Chade, the Fool, Dutiful, Thick, the Narcheska and many more characters as they're about to embark on a rather grand quest. I'm not sure knowing there are 3 more books involving the Fool and Fitz (after the Rainwild 4 books) is a good thing.

Out of the three trilogies I've read in RotE so far, The Tawny Man is unfortunately my least favourite. Tempers are running high and Dutiful puts Fitz to the task of helping Thick who in turn asks Nettle for help.

Making a plan that would leave Fool in Six Duchies to prevent that fate that Fool has foreseen for himself. Some of the changes in Fitz's character between the two series are made more clear, but I didn't have enough time to adapt to that revelation. Perhaps I'm overly attached to these characters now, it shows that Hobb's writing is phenomenal when it can make this cold heart, warm. A small and sadly untried coterie – the old assassin Chade, the serving-boy Thick, Prince Dutiful, and his reluctant Skillmaster, Fitz – sail towards the distant island of Aslevjal.