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Fool’s Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy Book One by Robin Hobb

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My final 6 reviews on CBR17 were Robin Hobb’s The Farseer Trilogy and The Liveship Traders Trilogy and I LOVED THEM. I am fully invested in reading all of her Realm of the Elderlings novels and I am back on track with Book one of The Tawny Man Trilogy — Fool’s Errand. I knew I was going to love it because it features two of my favorite characters: Fitz and the Fool. We first met them in The Farseer Trilogy where their unusual circumstances threw […]

Fool’s Errand (Tawny Man #1)

Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb

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My 2025 Robin Hobb Journey continues!  This trilogy starts after Liveship Traders ends. To really enjoy this series you should read the first two because it will pack a much bigger emotional punch; I would not recommend reading this as a standalone, just don’t do it. To start, we hang out with Fitz in his cabin, 16ish years after the events of The Farseer Trilogy. He and Nighteyes have carved out a peaceful life together and things are just fine, although Fitz is, as always, […]

I’m so, so glad I got back into Robin Hobb’s books. Totally worth it.

Fool's Errand (The Tawny Man, #1) by Robin Hobb

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It’s been a few weeks now* and I’m still trying to wrap my head around how much this book ensorcelled me, and how weird that felt after my (mostly) negative experience with the first Fitz trilogy a handful of years back. I suppose I should have seen this coming, though, with how much I loved The Liveship Traders, but a lot of things I didn’t like about the first Fitz trilogy were actually addressed here, and I’m sure there’s a bit of me in this […]



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