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Quote Originally Posted by Kes View Post
I like about half of Robin Hobb's stuff. Her first and third trilogies, but not so much with her second and latest. The Fool was just a really great character.
Oh dear, I'm almost the complete opposite. The Liveship Traders completely floored me, and remains one of my all-time favorite set of books along with ASoIaF. Her latest trilogy was pretty slow moving but won me over with the last book. On the other hand, I found The Tawny Man trilogy to be underwhelming in comparison, though the final book was pretty much amazing. But yes: Fool > all, and even at her lowest, I find Robin Hobb to be far more readable than a majority of the competition.
I didn't hate <i>The Liveship Traders</i> but I was kind of just reading through them to get to <i>The Tawny Man</i> because I'm a very character driven person, and I really wasn't a fan of any of the main characters. As for the latest (<i>Soldier Son</i>?) I'll admit I prejudged after the first book and have had the second just sitting around waiting for me to read it.

The character thing is why I have such a hard time reading some of this stuff. Not only do the characters have to capture my attention, but once you start killing their dogs, chopping off their limbs, blinding them and getting them eaten, I get a bit overwhelmed. Not that I want nothing but fluffy bunnies and happy endings, but sometimes a few here and there are nice. Assuming you don't kill the bunny.