/lit/ - Literature

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>>9493028
I agree with you, though I did manage to slog through and finish them. The thing that most annoyed me was that it was split into four books with less content than the previous trilogies, on top of all the shitty characters and teenage angst.

>>9493096
Like I said in another post, it sort of is a side story, but also not because of the background it gives to a lot of stuff that happens in the main three trilogies.
Have you actually read the latest? Because a lot of the stuff would seem a bit out of the blue if you hadn't read the Liveship trilogy. The Rain Wild Chronicles are less important in that sense.
Even some parts of the Tawny Man trilogy could use the back story given in the Liveship trilogy.

>>9493188
To be fair, I think Robin Hobb is probably the best female writer of fantasy and at least is better than the fatman GRRM.