Ship of Destiny (The Liveship Traders, Book 3): Harper

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Tintaglia was a wonderful addition to the mix. I can see how she will change the future of the realm.

Ship of Destiny continues where The Mad Ship left off and reveals some of the secrets that were hinted at in the first book and second books. a] far off, hard scrabble intergalactic underworld . . . fast-paced intergalactic adventure full of far-flung alien intrigue.”— Astroguyz Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?” This whole series has been perfection. It's not often that after reading a 2* book by an author I will continue on with their work but with Hobb I am so thrilled that I did go on to the Liveship books after the Farseer ones because truly she's a miracle writer and her ability to craft convincing, beautiful and stunning characters, worlds and ideas is unparalleled.Soon the Shining Destiny and the 20th Fleet arrived in orbit of Siwenna undetected. The vessel remained in orbit while Bel Riose and Glawen Curr performed a stealth insertion onto the planet to meet with the Imperial information Ducem Barr. [4] The Home-Swarm [ ] For those of you who are wondering if you can read this without reading Farseer or not, you absolutely can if you want. There’s one major character from the Farseer trilogy that’s here but if you haven’t read Farseer, you probably won’t know it’s him, that’s all you’ll miss. However, if you’re willing to read Farseer, I strongly recommend to finish the first two book and see how you feel about it first. If you don't like it, just read a summary of the third book, Assassin’s Quest, on Wikipedia. It will save you a HUGE amount of time and believe me, that book deserves to be skip, finishing that one almost made me give up completely on Robin Hobb, and this is coming from someone who actually enjoyed the first and second book in the trilogy. Hobb started this right from the end of Mad Ship and we saw all the story arcs going in farther away from each other instead of converging, at least initially. I was frustrated how all the story arcs were taking their on sweet time to reach the conclusion but once I finished reading this, I couldn't help but marvel on how beautifully she brought everything together. Once again I will talk about characters that impressed me the most. One thing Hobb does well, is produce interesting, well thought out, multidimensional characters. Many of the characters who are arguably “good” have their ugly side. I’m thinking here of Althea, Malta, Wintrow, Keffria and more. And Hobb forces us to look at the redeemable qualities of those characters who, if not totally evil, are pretty close. I’m thinking here in particular of Kennit, the pirate who would be king. Malta is alive, but damaged — a wound to her head is bearing for fruit a disfiguring scar. Her beauty suddenly taken from her, the difficult girl comes into her own as a young woman, finding within herself a burning desire to make the most of her life. Held captive with the petulant figurehead ruler of Jamaillia known as the Magnadon Satrap, she discovers that her worth to their captors is only as high as her erstwhile companion's. When they are taken from the treacherous Chalcedeans by a ship of Kennit's pirate fleet, Malta takes a desperate gambit to not only preserve her own life but to try to salvage her ruined family.

All in all, this was a deeply satisfying ending for this trilogy; it was all kinds of awesome when all our characters finally converge and things are eventually resolved. And it feels so good to leave our characters in a good place – much unlike the bleak ending of the Farseer trilogy. Well, at least now that I’m done with the Liveship Traders I will finally find out what happens to Fitz in the next trilogy set in the Realm of the Elderlings. In the Rain Wilds, Tintaglia, the dragon freed by Reyn and Selden, saves them from the ruins of the underground city. Malta is stranded in a boat with the Satrap floating down the Rain Wild River. They are rescued by a Chalcedean ship. Malta ensures their survivals by influencing the Satrap's behavior. Believing Malta dead, the Vestrits and some Rain Wilders return to Bingtown, where they help negotiate a united Bingtown. Tintaglia is determined to rescue her kind from extinction, but she finds the landscape changed and must appeal to the humans for help. She defeats the Chalcedean warships and proposes an alliance with the Bingtowners. Reyn and Selden are changed by their connection to the dragon, becoming like the ancient Elderlings. Reyn agrees to help Tintaglia on the condition that she helps him find Malta. I really wasn't sure how Robin Hobb was going to improve upon the previous two books in this series, as they were so well done and I had literally no complaints with any part of them. But she did here, in what has turned out to be one of the all-time best fantasy books - and without doubt the best fantasy pirate story ever told. Hobb explores gender as a theme in the Liveship Traders, which features the lives of three generations of women in a patriarchal society. [9] The women of the series often defy stereotypical expectations of their femininity: the rebellious sailor Althea Vestrit, who dresses as a man to work on a ship, re-kindles her sensitive side; the submissive housewife Keffria discovers her independence; and the conservative, traditional matriarch Ronica adapts to social change. [10] [11]a b Brown, Charles N.; Contento, William G. (2010). "Hobb, Robin". The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2000. Locus. D'Ammassa, Don (2006). Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8160-6192-1.

The people in Liveships are like real people, (literally) warts and all. I wonder, though, if it isn't too realistic.

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In the end, they are all shown as strong in their ways, even Keffria. But things are heaped against them as they aren't against the men: it could be said that the society Hobb structures around them is what brings that upon them, but it still felt like a barrier to my reading than a natural part of the world. A satisfying conclusion to the Liveship Traders trilogy and at the same time, it also made me super excited to start Tawny Man trilogy.

Ship of Destiny is a book by American writer Robin Hobb, the third and last in her Liveship Traders Trilogy. From his childhood, Nevare knows that he is destined to a cavalry officer and a soldier. His father entrusts him to the honour of an old enemy for training, he is inflicted with a magic indigenous to the lands and the conquered people. He later finds a clear mapped future derailed since the magic transforms him both physically and mentally, forcing him to live a double life. The trilogy was made up by Shaman’s Crossing, Forest Mage and Renegade’s Magic in 2005, 2006 and 2007 respectively. Renegade’s Magic won the 2007 Endeavor Award while Shaman’s Crossing honoured in the 2007 Best Foreign Novel Category. Rain Wild ChroniclesThis author knows how to end a series well. It’s one thing to end a story well, another to end a book well and entirely a different thing to end a trilogy well- especially one as massive and variegated as this one was. Hobb is the master of this craft. She has a delicate balance of action, dialogue and characterization that caused me to become invested in the story, and more importantly to me, in the characters. After Kennit's death, Althea has a claim on Vivacia, but gives it up in favor of Wintrow so that she can stay with Brashen aboard Paragon. Still suffering from the trauma of Kennit's rape, Althea struggles to become intimate with Brashen once more, but when Paragon helps take the pain of the memory away, she and Brashen are able to finally love one another without restriction. The climax was everything it needed to be. The characters all had one big clash at the high seas and in doing so Hobb expanded her fantasy universe tremendously. The importance of a group of serpents, which I initially perceived as insignificant, became abundantly clear. They’re so central to Hobb’s magic. I always wondered why they were so drawn to the boats. In retrospect it’s all rather obvious. But when I was reading I was rather dumbfounded. I wonder how the rest of the world will feel when they find out, if they find out. Borowska-Szerszun, Sylvia (2019). "Representation of Rape in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders". Extrapolation. 60 (1): 1–22. doi: 10.3828/extr.2019.2. S2CID 166766551. Kyle soon makes his plans known to make Vivacia a slaveship, to Althea's and the rest of the family's horror, as a liveship will not tolerate so much human suffering. Keffria and Ronica begin to question their course to install Kyle as captain, despite Kyle's assurances he will treat his slaves gently.