Ship of Magic (The Liveship Traders, Book 1) | Robin Hobb | Finally, a series worthly to rival...

Ship of Magic (The Liveship Traders, Book 1) | Robin Hobb | Even reading this the worst way the book was great.

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	Ship of Magic (The Liveship Traders, Book 1) Robin Hobb Spectra, 1999 - 832 pages average customer review:based on 197 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships--rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia.

For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her--a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim. For Althea's young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard ship, Vivacia is a life sentence.

But the fate of the Vestrit family--and the ship--may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles...and the first step of his plan requires him to capture his own liveship and bend it to his will....

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Finally, a series worthly to rival "The Lord of the Rings"

Robin Hobb is a master of story weaving. I am not especially fond of fantasy, but after a friend turned me on to the Assassins Apprentice series, we embarked on subsequent writings including the Liveship Traders and Tawny Man series. To maximize the effect of these interwoven novels, read them in that order (ie., The Farseer Trilogy, the Liveship Traders Series, and the Tawny Man Series.) The depth of the stories, as well as the richness and development of the characters easily rivals my all-time favorite series, The Lord of the Rings. Robin's work is truly a mastery of story telling. In fact, the only complaint I could conceive with her books is that they are too detailed (much in the same fashion of The Lord of the Rings.)

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Even reading this the worst way the book was great.

I read this book mostly when I was in waiting rooms or similar circumstances. Since I would only read 5-10 pages a week, it took over a year and a half to finish. In spite of that, the book was a marvel. The characters were so well drawn, the story was so involving that I had no difficulty in picking up the thread even if a month when by between reads.

Pirates of the Carribean, eat your heart out!

I cannot figure out what is wrong with me. I read this book for the first time about, oh, four years ago, just after completing the Farseer Trilogy. It took me a good month to get through it and for some reason I was not all that impressed. However, a second reading really changed things for me: I loved it. I think it's better than Farseer.Maybe that's because this is my style: high-seas, swashbuckling adventure and action, multiple characters, and distant ideas. It's all-aroudn juicy. Maybe it's not as emotionally complex, but I am a girl that likes a good, exciting story.And still Hobb worked hard for this. She once again created a rich mythology set against the practical setting of a proper merchant society, giving us on hand an almost plausible story and a mind-blowing fantasy on the other. And I'm not just going on about the talking ships.This is a book (and possibly a trilogy) for those who loves interesting characters and a good, satisfying story.

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S...l..o...w 1st half - picks up quick though. Great start for new series!

Over the summer I've stumbled upon Robin Hobb whilst gearing up for George RR Martin's Dance With Dragons. I finished her Farseer trilogy in June - even now, I don't wish to recall that uber-depressing yet amazing reading experience - and now started the Liveship trilogy before planning to conclude with the Tawny Man trilogy in mid- August as I've read other reviewers recommend to do.

Knowing too well her writing style of real-life characters put through much pain/suffering against a backdrop of dragon/Eldering fantasy, I only say 'here we go again'. Viewpoint has been changed to 3rd omniscient. Pace is much quicker than Farseer however the 1st half of the book (Mid Summer to Autumn) is VERY slow. I put down the book several times but then it became a thrill ride. Location is now way south of the Six Duchies; imagine the Farseer setting as New England and Canada whereas Bingtown is more like Havana or Kingston with the Pirate Isles being Meso-America and Jamailia as Rio De Janeiro. Six Duchies is mentioned a couple times like a far-away barbaric place with the war over and Verity's dragon squadron a crazy rumor and no more. But other than that, this series is pretty independent but I suspect the overall enjoyment factor of Farseer+Liveship+Tawny Man= much better than w/o Liveship. So start the series, I'm off to pick up 'Mad Ship'.

Think Pirates of the Caribbean mixed with a very little bit of Pride and Prejudice and David Copperfield.

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