Title: A dissapointment
Product review: I found this new effort from Hobb sadly disappointing and dull.I appreciate her efforts to explore a new setting, but what she does with that setting is ...not much. The central character fails to engage, and the novel moves at a snail's pace. I really found it hard to reconcile this plodding story with the verve that characterized Hobb's previous work.In the end, I had to force myself to finish Shaman's Crossing and could only consume it in tiny chunks to avoid giving up altogether. There may be the roots of a good story buried here, but unless the pace picks up considerably, it's hard to imagine this series ending up in the same lofty realm as the Liveship, Assasin and Tawny Man books.
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