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Ship of Destiny

(The Liveship Traders, Book 3)

By Robin Hobb

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780553575651

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In the powerful conclusion to the Liveship Traders trilogy, Robin Hobb weaves the spellbinding story of a once-thriving city on the brink of ruin, a glorious and mythic species on the edge of extinction, and the Vestrit clan, whose destiny is intertwined with both....
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what an adventure!
the plot is complex, full of threads, the characters are so real! i was moved at their misfortune, i was deceived with them, i was able to both love and hate through them, i shared their dreams and was disappointed at their failures, i could enjoy their victories and felt ... (continue)

what an adventure!
the plot is complex, full of threads, the characters are so real! i was moved at their misfortune, i was deceived with them, i was able to both love and hate through them, i shared their dreams and was disappointed at their failures, i could enjoy their victories and felt that i was starting to build a new life together with them!
this is not the story of some blessed/chosen character who can achieve everything without effort: it is a story of creatures, both human and not, who struggle to find their own place in the world, who need to sacrifice a lot, to give up a lot, to face difficulties and failures, to persevere following their hearts and their convictions about what is right.
"right" has different faces: everybody in this book behaves as they think it's right; there's always a reason behind a bad action (the story of pirate Kennit, for example)
i found a lot of myself in Althea, the way she struggles to see that she gets what's hers by right and at the same time tries to be useful to the ones she loves. what she understands only in the end, is that it is not true that she is the only one to know exactly what the others need to do to be happy and fulfilled, and left on themselves they can become amazing people, with no more need of herself at all.
this was without any doubt one of the best reading i've done.

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Chiara L'Onironauta said on Mar 13, 2010 | 2 feedbacks

Feminine Fantasy

I did enjoy this series as a whole but the combination of the talking liveships plus the very obvious feministic writing style makes this a series I really can't highly recommend. Hobb is a great writer with superb story-telling skills. However, her characters in this series change so often in thei ... (continue)

I did enjoy this series as a whole but the combination of the talking liveships plus the very obvious feministic writing style makes this a series I really can't highly recommend. Hobb is a great writer with superb story-telling skills. However, her characters in this series change so often in their decisions and even their speaking styles that I found parts of it totally bogus. It's still a fun read but better fantasy series are definitely out there including her Farseer Trilogy.

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