Drawing of author Maia Kobabe reading a book, Assassin's Apprentice, with a dragon and stag in the background. text says: Reading Robin Hobb: A Fanzine by Maia Kobabe. This series has: vivid, emotionally rich characters, a fascinating magic system, political intrigue, dragons, pirates, talking animals, & an ending that will break you & leave you wanting more! GO READ THEM! Then message me <3
It took me 20 years but I finally finished THE REALM OF THE ELDERLINGS! This 16 book fantasy epic is broken up into 5 sub-series. Some are better than others…
Very solid coming of age, can be read as one complete story. 8/10
I don’t like these as much but they reveal a lot of big plot points. 6/10
Incredibly good, can stop after this trilogy & feel satisfied. 9/10
Weak & forgettable. Can skip them & read a summary. 4/10
Perfect & devastating!! Ripped my heart out. Holy shit what an ending!! 10/10!!!!
My face when I finished the series: ROBIN, WHY??
Books 1-3, 7-9 & 14-16 all follow the same POV character: Fitz. The other books are multi-POV in a different part of the world.
Drawing of a middle aged man kneeling to pet a gray wolf. He carries an ax over his shoulder. Behind him is a stone carved with runes and the distant ocean. A magpie swoops overhead. the text reads: The series follows FitzChivalry Farseer, bastard son of a prince, raised as an assassin & tool for the royal family. We get to see him as a lonely child, a rebellious teen, an exiled adult, a foster father, & a grandfather. He develops a spiritual bond with a wolf, Nighteyes, possibly my favorite animal in all of fiction.
A drawing of a character dressed in black and white fool's motley with curling blond hair. He holds a wand with a rat's head and a puppet. At his feet a ferret pounces on cheese. A second drawing shows Fitz cradling the fool after both recover from injuries. A crown with rooster heads is below them. the Text reads:
Another beloved character is the Fool, a complex gender-fluid figure. I’m not going to say Fitz & the Fool are in love but they are two sides of the same coin. They don’t exactly end up “together” but they do END together. They never have sex but at one point they ARE inside each other’s bodies. If you know you know!!!!
Finally finished reading Robin Hobb's REALM OF THE ELDERLINGS series last year! Made a fanzine about it <3 (it's on patreon with a full transcript: www.patreon.com/posts/122322... and mail-tier patrons get a copy this month) #realmoftheelderlings #farseertrilogy #robinhobb #fitzandthefool