Assassin’s Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, #1)

by Robin Hobb

[inlibrisveritas]

This was a book I was supposed to have finished back in 2019, but due to stress and a whole host of issues, I could never get myself to focus on it long enough to make any sort of actual progress.

So here were are months after I was supposed to have it finished and I finally sat down with this book to attempt it again...and I finished it one sitting. The slower pace of the book is a bit daunting at first, but I love the way the story itself progressed. It sort of turns aside all of the obvious tropes that plague fantasy featuring assassination, and instead leans into showing us how the people themselves work. There are no unknowable shadowy figures because even the most mysterious of players are still given plenty of time to be fleshed out in a realistic and human way.