My Novel Reads

Robin Hobb - Elderlings Series

These are slow burn heavy world building books. This is the recommended reading order.

These books come in several trilogies, focusing mainly on characters from two parts of the world.

Farseer Trilogy - A prince's bastard is raised as an assassin. But also has a secret magic that often gets people killed for having it. All of this in the face of mounting threats for the kingdom at large.

Liveship Traders Trilogy - In a different part of the world, some families are lucky enough to own special ships made of wizardwood. When someone dies on their decks, they soak in the memories of that person. After three captains of the owning family die on the decks, the ship comes to life. Follow one such family through their internal dramas made all the more wild by conflict with a brutal pirate.

Tawny Man Trilogy - Time has passed and we return to the bastard farseer who has found a quiet life, until an old friend shows up to pull him back into adventure.

Rainwilder Chronicles - can't say too much about this one without spoilers. We're back in the area the liveships originated. For reasons, an expendable crew of youths must venture up the acidic, boat eating waters of the rain wild River in search of a fabled lost city.

Fitz and the Fool Trilogy - The finale. We are once again with our assassin. He's getting old now. But a threat from beyond any maps they have requires him and his old friend to go on a mission of vengeance across the world.