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A review by mav_ka
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
5.0
I read it one time in high school and the only thing I remembered was the sense of calm and slowness that this book brought to me.
I re-read it a second time in university, and I found that I could lean on this book as I hobbled through some pretty dark times.
So glad I picked this book up. Again. As it's the first one in the trilogy, it has a bit of a slower pace, especially since we get to witness Fitz's entire childhood and growing up.
The pace picks up at the end, to the point where I could not put this book down before I knew what happened. The author builds the mystery very masterfully, and I found myself surprised by certain events more than once. Yes, even on my second re-read.
I kind of forgot everything that happened since my first read, so I got to literally live the dream of forgetting everything in the book I loved and experiencing it for the second time. Now that I did live through it, I gotta say, it's not as special as people think. The feelings that I got from my second re-read are fresh, but the feelings I had during my first read have faded. There is nothing to compare my thoughts to because it feels like I've never read the book to begin with.
But I feel like I'll remember this book more fondly now, maybe because my preferences have changed over the years, or maybe because this book helped me get by. Who knows.
This book is definitely for people who love:
- Court intrigue
- Assassins (but not, like, the flashy kind. The realistic royal kind)
- Picking up small details in the book that hint at the bigger picture (and feeling so smug about it when the bigger picture is revealed much later)
- Being surprised
- Not super action-packed (this book really gives you a break and takes you through all the events with calmness and slowness)
I re-read it a second time in university, and I found that I could lean on this book as I hobbled through some pretty dark times.
So glad I picked this book up. Again. As it's the first one in the trilogy, it has a bit of a slower pace, especially since we get to witness Fitz's entire childhood and growing up.
The pace picks up at the end, to the point where I could not put this book down before I knew what happened. The author builds the mystery very masterfully, and I found myself surprised by certain events more than once. Yes, even on my second re-read.
I kind of forgot everything that happened since my first read, so I got to literally live the dream of forgetting everything in the book I loved and experiencing it for the second time. Now that I did live through it, I gotta say, it's not as special as people think. The feelings that I got from my second re-read are fresh, but the feelings I had during my first read have faded. There is nothing to compare my thoughts to because it feels like I've never read the book to begin with.
But I feel like I'll remember this book more fondly now, maybe because my preferences have changed over the years, or maybe because this book helped me get by. Who knows.
This book is definitely for people who love:
- Court intrigue
- Assassins (but not, like, the flashy kind. The realistic royal kind)
- Picking up small details in the book that hint at the bigger picture (and feeling so smug about it when the bigger picture is revealed much later)
- Being surprised
- Not super action-packed (this book really gives you a break and takes you through all the events with calmness and slowness)