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Fool's Fate
by Robin Hobb
Long. Loooooong. And then a race to the end. When we started this buddy read, I did not expect these last two books to be like this. For me it was a re-read. For Anthony and now Josh, a first time read. And then the covid-19 quarantine hit and I was with physical books on order and they just didn't wait.
So this was a rush read to catch up. And this book was of daunting length.
I had remembered some details. I had forgotten others.
But the last third was especially emotional, kind of in the tear-jerker category.
But also by the end, the richness of the characters and the world was clear. This is a book that harvested the world-building of the previous books, even though it continued to extend that world.
This was an uneven book. It trudged and it flew.
It could probably have whole novellas of actions happening just off-screen from a different pov character.
It was kind of exhausting. But also somewhat exhilarating.
So this was a rush read to catch up. And this book was of daunting length.
I had remembered some details. I had forgotten others.
But the last third was especially emotional, kind of in the tear-jerker category.
But also by the end, the richness of the characters and the world was clear. This is a book that harvested the world-building of the previous books, even though it continued to extend that world.
This was an uneven book. It trudged and it flew.
It could probably have whole novellas of actions happening just off-screen from a different pov character.
It was kind of exhausting. But also somewhat exhilarating.