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A review by lizziaha
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
slow-paced
3.75
I’m putting my faith in the idea that this book is laying a very strong foundation for the 15 other books. Unfortunately, Fitz is a very lonely child, so the story only really picked up for me in the last quarter of the book, when he began establishing and using his relationships with others. This book has a very straightforward style of writing, which occasionally read as telling instead of showing. It’s a complex book with a lot of moving parts, and you have to explain them sometime, but it did result in somewhat dense chunks of text sometimes. I wasn’t sure at the beginning but I’m definitely curious to see where this goes.
Graphic: Murder, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, and Abandonment
Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Grief, Ableism, Misogyny, Alcohol, Child abuse, and Physical abuse
Minor: Bullying, Infidelity, Infertility, Rape, Death of parent, and Eating disorder