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Indlæser... Ship of Destiny (The Liveship Traders, Book 3) (original 2000; udgave 2001)af Robin Hobb, Stephen Youll (Illustrator)
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Really loved this series though I must admit that I was less than thrilled with such a wonderful series ended the way it did. Althea's story-line had been solid through most of three novels - to leave her victim to such a stereotypical female heroine trope damn near breaks my heart. Though I realize that talking about rape was super taboo back when Hobb wrote the series and thus brave in its endeavor to illuminate real fear - it's now par for the course for authors to subject their female characters to the male reader's gaze and fantasies. Puke. A lot. I expect better from such a prolific female author. I considered calling in sick to work just so I could read this book without any interruptions. That's how good it is. It is a perfect ending to one of the best trilogies I have ever read. I didn't even know how attached I was to these characters until the second half of the book when everything went crazy. The last chapter made me cry and got me hyped for the Tawny Man trilogy. Edit: I need to write better reviews for these books on my next reread because I do have some issues with them, especially after rereading them. I have issues like paedophiles being presented in a good light for example (there is a character that is 20 and is after - and ends up with - a 13 year old girl). Before people start saying that "it was different in that time" about a fantasy novel, the fact that she is just a child and he is an adult is recognized in the text and other characters have issue with it. It's just sad that discussion went nowhere and was brushed off. I still love the books, but these things are very uncomfortable to read and I wish it had been addressed better. In the last installment of the Liveship Traders trilogy, Hobb cranks up the heat in this swashbuckling adventure to includes dragons flying around, war brimming on the horizon, and our main cast of characters discovering themselves with harsh lessons that leave them forever changed. 4.5 stars out of 5! Half-way through this book, I seriously doubted that Hobbs would be able to wrap up the story. Two-thirds of the way through, I started it believe it possible. In the end, she did wrap things up, and quite nicely too. Some of the story lines felt more abruptly finished than others, but for the most part, things were wrapped up pretty reasonably. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML:“A truly extraordinary saga . . . The characterizations are consistently superb, and [Hobb] animates everything with love for and knowledge of the sea.”—Booklist As 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. 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. Bold though it is, Althea’s scheme may be in vain. For her beloved Vivacia will face the most terrible confrontation of all as the secret of the liveships is revealed. 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. Praise for Robin Hobb and the Liveship Traders Trilogy “Fantasy as it ought to be written . . . Robin Hobb’s books are diamonds in a sea of zircons.”—George R. R. Martin “A 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.”—Publishers Weekly “Rich, complex . . . [Hobb’s] plotting is complex but tightly controlled, and her descriptive powers match her excellent visual imagination. But her chief virtue is that she delineates character extremely well.”—Interzone. No library descriptions found. |
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Politics plays an enormous part in the story and Malta becomes a key player in the thrashing out of a new relationship between Jamaillia and Bingtown, rather than Companion Serilla who was built up to be such in the earlier volumes. A main strand in the story is the final working out of the whole sea-serpent-dragon-liveship connection. There is some early emphasis on the vicissitudes of Bingtown, but these are abandoned for much of the book with only a brief return to Bingtown and the characters there at the end to bring those ends to a tidy tying-up.
Kennit the Pirate King, as he has now become, progresses to absolute villainy, although I had a problem with believing this which deterred me from granting this volume a 5 star rating.
We already knew that Kennit was thoroughly unpleasant from all the POV sections in the previous volumes - he abolishes slavery yet he does it only to create a powerbase, he debates whether or not to kill various people who are devoted to him, including Sorcor and Etta, whenever he thinks they might be becoming inconvenient to him in some way. So what he does towards the close of this book seems gratuitous, because if there is no emotional pain left around his boyhood memories - at least the ones that happened to him at the hands of Igrot rather than the loss of his idyllic early childhood with his parents - why does he have the compulsion to act them out? It also seems rather convenient that
Another element that is not quite convincing enough is the apparent ease
When the threads are tidied up at the end of the story there is a huge revelation which is quite subtly done