Title: Get FAT with Magic!
Product review: I loved Robin Hobb's Assassins books and the Liveship trilogy. I was hoping for more of the same (epic fantasy of course, with great characters) and this trilogy does NOT deliver. This first book is horribly boring, as the main character, Nevare is dragged along by one of his father's former enemies (a dreaded plainsmen) to try and teach him some life lessons. He ends up on some spirit journey that will have later repercussions. The latter half of the book deals with his life at the soldier's academy. Unfortunately none of this is written in an entertaining manner, with Nevare musing over everything to the point of repetitive boredom. None of the characters in the world are intriguing, much less Nevare himself, who is too properly raised to be of any interest at all (he is shocked that women have thoughts other than "women's thoughts", oh whatever Nevare!)
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