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Reviewed by: Kim
Rating: 9/10
Genre: Fantasy
838 pages/1997
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Assassin’s Queset
by
Robin Hobb
This is the third book in the Farseer Trilogy, following Assassin's Apprentice and Royal Assassin. As this book opens FitzChivalry finds himself in a situation where everyone in the world, save two men and one wolf, thinks he's dead and he wishes that were true. Slowly FitzChivalry recovers his confidence and sets out on a quest to find his King and help him reclaim his throne and repel the invaders that have been attacking his coasts.
Like the other books in this series, the story is very well written. It's told in the first person from FitzChivalry's point of view yet the focus is not narrow. There are a wealth of other characters in the novel and the author made me care about each and every one of them. The language used in the book was exactly the right level for good entertainment--not too simplistic but not too complicated either.
The strength of the other books in this series, I thought was the plot. This book was a tad weaker in plot. I'm not saying that it didn't have one--it had a rioutously masterful one--but it wasn't as tight as it has been in previous books. Major events happened in the book without contributing much to the plot. Some plot twists came seemingly randomly out of the blue while others were frustratingly foreshadowed for hundreds of pages (or even in previous books) before ever coming to fruition.
The ending of the story was very well done. Unfortunately, it didn't quite coincide with the ending of the book. The author tacked on another chapter or two wrapping up loose ends and laying the groundwork for possible future books (which now exist in the Tawny Man series). I felt the book would've been better without these last chapters.
Despite these complaints, though, this book was awesome! I loved it and I will definitely be reading more from this author in the future. I would recommend this book to anyone except that it picks up right where the previous book left off, so I think it would be better to read this book after reading the previous two. Do though, it's worthwhile.
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