{"id":49,"date":"2005-01-06T12:42:33","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T19:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=49"},"modified":"2021-06-02T19:18:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T23:18:09","slug":"the-liveship-traders-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/49","title":{"rendered":"The Liveship Traders Trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ship<\/a>The Liveship Traders Trilogy
\nShip of Magic<\/em> (1998) The Mad Ship<\/em> (1999) Ship of Destiny<\/em> (2000) Robin Hobb<\/a><\/p>\n

The most frustrating thing about this series, is that I didn’t particularly like any of the characters. The story was great, the writing was great, but not only were there characters that I really liked and was invested in, I actively disliked a couple of the characters. Which made this book hard to read. Yet I still had to know what happened, and thus devoured the story, even as part of me wished that I was reading about someone else.<\/p>\n

\"mad<\/a>The only characters I actually liked were Amber and the two ships, Paragon and Vivacia. The rest of the main characters I found annoying, frustrating, or plain dislikable. Although many of the characters did manage to grow up and redeem themselves by the end of the book, I just didn’t care as much as I normally do.<\/p>\n

Of course that should be seen as a credit to her writing, the characters were well written and believable–unfortunately they mostly seemed like people I didn’t care to know. <\/p>\n

But as I said, the story was fantastic, and although not necessary to read, is important to events that occur in the later Tawny Man series.<\/p>\n

\"ship<\/a>So I can’t recommend these books one way or the other. I didn’t care for the characters, but that doesn’t mean you won’t like them, and the story really is very good. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Liveship Traders Trilogy Ship of Magic (1998) The Mad Ship (1999) Ship of Destiny (2000) Robin Hobb The most frustrating thing about this series, is that I didn’t particularly like any of the characters. 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