The log material, which became known as wizardwood, proved undamaged by the acidic Rain Wild River, and was therefore immensely valuable. Splitting the logs revealed a pale carcass which the Traders discarded. When the Rain Wild Traders began excavating the buried Elderling city of Frengong, they discovered what appeared to be logs inside a chamber.
Liveships are renowned for their sentience, which they achieve after three members of their family die aboard them. They are the exclusive province of the Rain Wild Traders and Bingtown Traders. But her chief virtue is that she delineates character extremely well.A liveship is a ship made partially out of wizardwood. Rich, complex … plotting is complex but tightly controlled, and her descriptive powers match her excellent visual imagination. MartinĪ major work of high fantasy, reading like a cross between Tolkien and Patrick O'Brian … one of the finest fantasy sagas to bridge the millennium. Praise for Robin Hobb and the Liveship Traders Trilogyįantasy as it ought to be written … Robin Hobb’s books are diamonds in a sea of zircons. It is a truth so shattering, it may destroy the Vivacia and all who love her, including Althea’s nephew, whose life already hangs in the balance. For her beloved Vivacia will face the most terrible confrontation of all as the secret of the liveships is revealed.
Meanwhile, Althea Vestrit, unaware of what has befallen Bingtown and her family, continues her perilous quest to track down and recover her liveship, the Vivacia, from the ruthless pirate Kennit.īold though it is, Althea’s scheme may be in vain. BooklistĪs Bingtown slides toward disaster, clan matriarch Ronica Vestrit, branded a traitor, searches for a way to bring the city’s inhabitants together against a momentous threat. A truly extraordinary saga … The characterizations are consistently superb, and animates everything with love for and knowledge of the sea.
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