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I finally got down to finishing Assassin’s Quest by Robin Hobb after something like two and a half months of reading, and the fact that I took that long is a sign that I didn’t enjoy the book a whole lot.
Assassin’s Quest is the final book in the Farseer Trilogy (the first two books being [...]

Last year I managed to read 17 books, a far cry from the annual 30 target that Wanida and I set since 2006 (actually, we’ve never reached it). It’s actually a slip from last year (19 books) despite the year being slightly freer than last.
Fiction
Austin Grossman – Soon I Will Be Invincible
Dan Abnett – Ravenor [...]

Royal Assassin is the second book in the Farseer Trilogy, a review of the first book, Assassin’s Apprentice, can be found here.
The story follows FitzChivalry after the ending of Assassin’s Apprentice and plunges him back into his world at Buckkeep amidst Regal’s ambitions for the throne, the Red-Ship Raiders, more Forged Ones and his love [...]

After finishing reading A Clash Of Kings by George R. R. Martin, I was in the mood for some good fantasy and so I crowdsourced for recommendations. Robin Hobb’s Farseer Trilogy appeared too many times to be ignored, so I hopped on to Amazon.ca and gave it a go.
When I got the book, two things [...]