/lit/ - Literature

I'm reading Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb.

wasn't sure about giving this one a shot, because Fitz's story ended quite well in the previous story, and because the last thing I've read by her (Soldier's Son trilogy) was slow and dull and never really went anywhere. I've never been a fan of the parallel series either, so I skipped the Rainwild stuff, for now.

This book, however, feels like a warm blanket. She takes her sweet time establishing the somewhat mundane life of the main character now that his prime days of intrigue, killing and adventuring is largely over, but she does it in a way that rarely bores me.

I don't know whether it's the writer's age or attachement to the characters she's writing about, but lately she isn't fixated anymore on making her them constantly suffer like in her early books. The Tawny Man trilogy was also dulled in this regard, and was probably better for it. It's not like there isn't conflict or suffering anymore, but her strikes are more focused now, so they come as a surprise rather than being a constant lingering of pain and misery.