Renegade’s Magic is the final, extremely disappointing book in Robin Hobb’s Soldier Son trilogy. It’s so wildly disappointing that it’s made me look back at its predecessors, which I had really enjoyed, and wonder if they were actually anywhere near as good as I’d thought they were. (Mild spoilers below)… Forest Mage left us with Nevare having finally cut all ties to his Gernian life. With the population of Gettys reeling in disgust at the crimes he’s accused of, Nevare uses his Speck magic to […]
Where I spend all of my time yelling at fictional characters
Shaman’s Crossing, the first in Robin Hobb’s Soldier Son trilogy, left us with Nevare having survived the Speck plague outbreak at the Academy and looking forward to getting his life back on track, blissfully unaware that, as a character in a Robin Hobb book, being bullied and surviving the plague is the least of his troubles. Forest Mage takes all of Nevare’s hopes, dreams, loved ones and the life he’s been building and torches them all, dragging him down to a bottomless pit of despair […]
Robin Hobb never fails to deliver
For some reason, I’d been putting off reading Robin Hobb’s Soldier Son trilogy. Partly, I think, because it hadn’t received the wholly glowing reviews of her other works on Goodreads, and partly because I’d been so sucked in to the worlds of Fitz and the Fool and the Elderlings, and didn’t think that stories set elsewhere would satisfy me. It wasn’t until I was bemoaning the fact that I still hadn’t got my hands on the latest Fitz trilogy that I decided to give The […]