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A review by dashie
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
5.0
I'm going to have to buy this book in a physical format because there's so much that I want to analyse. I want to look at the words I heard and see them on a page. I need to understand how this book was written!
I get the hype. Robin Hobb is a master craftswoman. It's been a while since I read such a carefully constructed introduction to a series and a world. The plot took an almost lazy amble towards the end of the book, where it picked up the pace as Fritz got older. The background to the story spilled out so delicately over the course of the novel, you didn't really notice, but you were also being educated on how this world works and where you, since you're in Fritz's head, belonged on it. The steady progress of the plot felt almost Ghibli-esque. That's the best way I can describe it. There's danger, sorrow, and maturity in there, but you don't notice until you really look because you're being enveloped in such warm, rich, and homely worldbuilding.
I'm lucky I'm broke right now, or I would've splurged on the entire series! I'm so excited that there's so many books left in Hobb's world for me to discover. And so much about writing that I can learn from them.
I get the hype. Robin Hobb is a master craftswoman. It's been a while since I read such a carefully constructed introduction to a series and a world. The plot took an almost lazy amble towards the end of the book, where it picked up the pace as Fritz got older. The background to the story spilled out so delicately over the course of the novel, you didn't really notice, but you were also being educated on how this world works and where you, since you're in Fritz's head, belonged on it. The steady progress of the plot felt almost Ghibli-esque. That's the best way I can describe it. There's danger, sorrow, and maturity in there, but you don't notice until you really look because you're being enveloped in such warm, rich, and homely worldbuilding.
I'm lucky I'm broke right now, or I would've splurged on the entire series! I'm so excited that there's so many books left in Hobb's world for me to discover. And so much about writing that I can learn from them.