peningtonj 's review for:

Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb
5.0

Got to write something about this trilogy. An incredible set of book, Hobbs writing of Fitz is unwaveringly exceptional. It's hard to think of another character who feels so real. He is constantly fucking up, and her writing of his inner life and the way that his mistakes arise from a complex mix of his personal flaws, his traumas and the pressures of the world he lives in is makes him endlessly fascinating.

Hobb also does a phenomenal job of exploring how the structures and cultures that we are born into, the ones we affirm, and the ones we reject, for good reasons and bad shape who we are, how we act and how we connect to each other. So perfectly distilled that it is timeless.