Fool’s Quest (Fitz and the Fool, Book 2)
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Fool’s Quest (Fitz and the Fool, Book 2)
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Narrated by:
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Lee Maxwell-Simpson
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Avita Jay
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By:
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Robin Hobb
About this listen
'Fantasy as it ought to be written' George R.R. Martin
Robin Hobb returns to her best loved characters with the second volume in a brand new series.
Happy endings never last…
Years ago, they freed a dragon from the glaciers on Aslevjal. Then they parted ways, the Fool returning to far-off Clerres, while Fitz finally claimed a wife, a family, and a home of his own.
Now, betrayed by his own people and broken by torment, the Fool has made his way back to the Six Duchies. But as Fitz attempts to heal his old friend in Buckkeep Castle, his young daughter Bee is abducted from Withywoods by pale and mysterious raiders who leave ruin and confusion in their wake.
Fitz must find a way to rescue his beloved Bee. At the same time it is the Fool’s fiercest wish to return to Clerres with the best assassin he has ever known, to gain vengeance and justice.
Can Fitz bear to take up the tools of his old trade again, even to avenge his dearest friend and save his child?
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Critic reviews
‘Robin’s secret is not just in the detail with which she depicts the Six Duchies world she has explored over 20 years, but her emphasis on internal drama… the feelings of anguish, ambiguity, fear and failure are as familiar as those in a novel by Jonathan Franzen’ Independent on Sunday
‘Glorious and beautiful storytelling from Robin Hobb’ SciFi Now
‘Hobb seamlessly blends intrigue, action and characters who feel so real that they become more than words on a page … Every second spent in her world is a privilege and a pleasure’ SFX
‘Robin Hobb’s Fitz and the Fool series continues to delight’ Starburst Magazine
‘Another crowning career achievement in the lifetime of one of fantasy’s modern-day masters’ Fantasy Book Review
setting up for the finally
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the characters of Fitz and the Fool remain perhaps the most intricate and engaging characterisations in modern fantasy. this middle book puts the pair through a significant rollercoaster bridging the set-up of book one with the finale of book three. Hobb struggles at time with the pacing, and the last four or five chapters feel as if they should be starting a new book. we get a cliff hanger of sorts but it would have been a tidier finish to halt at the departure IMO.
that said Hobb revels in the world she's crafted, bringing together characters and settings from all her books, all the way to the first Farseer books. you get such a sense of time and change, and such lovely prose. I'm heading straight to book 3 with mixed feelings, as I genuinely don't want it all to end 15 books later.
the audio is great- both narrators do a good job, and the fact they're the same in all three books is a bonus (as it impaired the Rainwild books on Audible for me).
superb middle book of the final trilogy
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Love the story but didn't like the narrator
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just amazing
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awesome !
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