Beim Gehen, Kochen und wenn ich meine Hände anderweitig brauche, höre ich #Audiobooks. Zuletzt beendet: Robin Hobb "Royal Assassin" (Farseer Trilogy #2). #RobinHobb gehört, wie Bujold, zu den #Fantasy Autorinnen die höfische Intrige können weil sie Gefühle verstehen. #fantasyromane#fantasybooks@buchstodon@bookstodon
Any recommendations for good SFF/speculative books that are written first person? My wife and I are really enjoying reading the Murderbot books aloud to each other. Part of that is the great writing and sparkling personality of the main character, but I think part of it is also the different vibe of first person writing, where the narrator is telling a story to the audience. I'd like to find more books like that.
She's currently #2 on my Top 10 Epic Fantasy list.
The only reason she's #2 is that I read Janny Wurtz' The Wars of Light and Shadow last. While reading Robin Hobb, she's my #1 and there can be no other.
I've read all 16 books in the Elderling saga 3x, now... and I just gotta say...
The ultimate climax in the final book? I can barely read it, because tears are running down my face like my dog just died.
I've read a LOT of Epic Fantasy. It's basically all I read, so when I say the following, you can trust...
Some authors come close to the combination of EPICNESS and sheer emotional catharsis that Hobb achieves in the last few chapters of her saga...
But nobody has reached those heights, yet.
You have multiple epic storylines converging, and Hobb keeps you in suspense until the last possible moment. You can sense the connections, the shape of the epic structure... but you can't KNOW.
Not until she does her thing in that conclusion.
Then it's like a light-bulb went on in your brain. The connections become obvious in retrospect, and you get chills and the hairs on your arms stand up.
Man, that's just the setup for the wicked catharsis. There's a WHOLE OTHER character-based level -- not plot, but character -- that doesn't become apparent until the very end.
And that's what breaks my heart every time. It's the ruthless combo of epic storytelling and unreliable narration, all being neatly resolved in a couple chapters.
@bookstodon I finished a book last night that I didn't really enjoy. Not the story, nor the writing. It wasn't too long and it was entertaining enough that I didn't drop it though.
Then I picked up Fool's Assassin by #RobinHobb and it's such a pleasure to dive into a book by someone who truly knows how to write one.
And visiting loved characters again, of course.
Nouveau sur le blog, le premier d'une série d'articles sur Robin Hobb. On cause le royaume des anciens pour ce premier post, mais ensuite on ira découvrir ses autres écrits, parce qu'il y a plein de romans tops dont on parle pas assez !
Plucked Fool's Fate (Robin Hobb) off my bookshelf last night. Fell right into in. I love the depth of her characterizations. A good late-summer read, heading to an icy island. #reading#RobinHobb@bookstodon
Boarding school sub-plots in coming-of-age novels (e.g. Robin Hobbs’ Soldiers son-trilogy, or Rothfuss’ The wise man’s fear) are always predictable and stereotypical.
Robin Hobb is one of the most important writers in contemporary fantasy literature. Her Realm of the Elderlings novels, published 1995-2017, are a stunning feat of storytelling and worldbuilding. #RobinHobb#fantasy