I'm officially on winter break! I went to the 8th grade teacher secret Santa party last night, I finished grades this morning, and now I'm DONE for two weeks! Time to dive into a new series. 🤓
pickI cannot even begin to describe the experience of reading this book. It's literally like falling into the pages headfirst and living within the words. I'm not the least bit interested in hurrying through this series. I've reached my yearly book goal. I'm going to thoroughly enjoy this trilogy and I don't care to rush through even one page. 5 stars and above. Am I into pirates and ships normally? No. But I love this. What great writing.
"Refuse the anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in the dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgement."
I think this is going to be a great book! Sitting in a tractor this time of year during harvest gives me extra time to read between running the auger for grain carts. ???
pickI was kind of leery going into this because in book one none of the characters were capable of making good decisions BUT this one there was actual growth! One character I absolutely hated in book one became a character I thought really well of by the end of this one.
It‘s taken me an age,but I‘m so close to the end!!
so-soI'd definitely say this was on the border between low pick and so-so mainly because none of the characters were able to make sound decisions. I got so much second hand embarrassment because everything they chose was not good. The only real character to root for is the stupid ship but even she had bad reasoning.
Just over 200 pages to go!
pickRobin Hobb creates a magical world, this has to be different to any book I‘ve read before with Liveships, Pirates, sea serpents, etc. These take a while to get into and despite being fantasy has great linkages to the real world and the down trodden way women have been treated throughout history.
A BIG read but some interesting plot lines and interested to see where this is taken in book 2.
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