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Fitz is torn between his duty to the Farseer throne and his friendship, though strained, with his Fool. I could not recommend Robin Hobb’s books highly enough – the Farseer, Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies are a must for every fantasy enthusiast. There is no way back to the surface, so they explore the tunnels, finding themselves within the Pale Woman's icy fortress.
Only the first-person narrative can give this and only an author as talented as Robin Hobb can deliver it. It was not until the ninth book that I realised that one of the things that made Hobb’s fantasy tales so realistic, and that helps avoid the absurdity of some offerings, is the use of well thought-out and sensible names. Tempers are running high and Dutiful puts Fitz to the task of helping Thick who in turn asks Nettle for help. She has an ability to create not only a world which is magic and a wonderful place to escape to, but she can convince me fully about this world.Every character and their own mini factions have their own hidden agendas and motivation in this quest. Includes Titles: Fool's Fate: The Tawny Man Trilogy Book III, Golden Fool: The Tawny Man Trilogy Book 2, Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy Book 1. Here’s how it goes, Thick get seasick, they arrived at one destination, Thick tried to recover from seasickness by resting and meanwhile Fitz and the gang do some talking and dreaming (literally). Fitz is a character that we now know almost as well as ourselves, Prince Dutiful is now fifteen years old and maturing into the King he is set to become while Chade, as ever, is the stubborn and intelligent weaver of events and news. Once Fitz and the gang arrived at Aslevjal in chapter 13, this is when the book’s quality became golden until the end (see what I did there?
These two will genuinely be the death of me, all these scenes and more had me in a wreck, I mean like sobbing my eyes out at 2AM and waking up the next day with puffy eyes. Knowing that the Fool has foretold he will die on the island of ice, Fitz plots to leave his dearest friend behind. When Fitz was in a bad place after almost dying in Assassin's Quest, he needed a lifeline, Burrich should have told him then that Molly was pregnant with his child but he never did and vice versa he never told Molly that Fitz survived the dungeons so to her he died then, he is even more guilty than Molly. She then has the Fool chained with the rest of her captives and will Forge him as well unless Fitz will kill the dragon. His intentions are at odds with Chade, who is determined to slay the dragon to secure peace, whatever the cost.
If you had asked me at about 80% through I would have said there weren't enough stars on this site for this book. However, I don't want to spoil anything about it, all I want is for you all to go and enjoy the wonder of Hobb's world yourselves. But then, once everyone got to Aslevjal, that idea collapsed and there was no way I was putting the book down until I realized it was one in the morning and the words were swimming before my eyes and I'd stubbornly read the same paragraph five times without comprehending any of it BUT OH MAN the poor Fool had just been chained to a memory stone dragon and sentenced to a slow death by forging so how could I just calmly go to sleep after that? I'm not sure knowing there are 3 more books involving the Fool and Fitz (after the Rainwild 4 books) is a good thing.
In any case, I broke down again during the penultimate, pre-epilogue chapter, and cried for the fact that Fitz gets the past he wanted -- and yes, still wants -- at the expense of the future. There they must fulfil the Narcheska's challenge to her betrothed: to lay the head of the dragon Icefyre, whom legends tell is buried there deep beneath the ice, upon her hearth. Like she married Burrich who is Fitz's adopted father few months after giving birth to Fitz's child, yes I know she thought he was dead but still couldn't she pick someone else? The plot follows Dutiful, Fitz, Chade and the rest of them to the Outislands to kill the dragon buried in ice.I don’t know, couldn’t Fitz have found the Fool close to death and saved him much the same way he did? Because its ending made me freaking uneasy and I felt it was completely wrong and completely untrue to the series' temperament. These past eight books, I’ve loved her character-driven storytelling and never had any issues with what some feel is slow pacing.
The concept of Skill-Healing can be tweaked easily by Hobb and if she wanted to, this magic system could prolong the series up to an infinite number of books. Y así, cegados por la vanidad y la sed de sangre, libráis guerras y os matáis entre vosotros por las rayas que habéis imaginado sobre la faz del mundo. Fool's Fate is a great conclusion to The Tawny Man Trilogy, after the disappointment that was Assassin's Quest I was scared this will be another even though Liveship Traders was amazing.I thought it was highly inappropriate that one of Fitz first thoughts when Burrich dies is now I can be with Molly. Now I'm flailing around trying to disentangle what the characters think they want, what I think they want, and what they actually want. Finally freed from prophetic expectations and his own emotional stunting, Fitz courts Molly again, eventually winning her love and settling at Withywoods with her and her children.
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