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I love Robin Hobb's books and the Liveship Traders is my favorite collection. I have read the assassin series and other works, but the Liveships are the best - both for the story line itself as well as the well-developed characters that evolve from book 1 to book 3. I don't want to share any surprises (spoilers) so I won't mention the plot much other than to say that it is satisfyingly complex without being too complex. Part mystery. Part fantasy. Part alternative society. You will become so totally immersed in this saga, you may find it difficult to put down without finishing. This is the second time I have read the series (I was shocked that it was no longer in the local library) and was pleased to find it on Amazon. Thank you, second hand book dealers.


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Mad Ship Liveship Traders Robin Hobb 9780006498865 Books Reviews

I dug in to this series bc I wanted to read more about Fitz, yet everyone online says you "have to" read this trilogy before going back to Fitz. I have to say, this was a major bummer. The first Liveship book was a drag, but I plodded through. As always, Hobb's endings are satisfactory. But I couldn't even get there with this one. The characters are all so flawed - and not in that compelling way, in that "ughhhhhh stop talkinggggg" sort of way. Their actions weren't relateable and I felt no urge to root for anyone, just for the end of the book.
After I read "Ship of Magic" for this first time I was conflicted. I loved the writing style and the story but couldn't stand some of the characters. In fact, I hated them so much that I made it about one fifth of the way through "Mad Ship" before putting it down for something happier.

But then months later the rain wilds chronicles came out and I was too curious to pass them up and knew I needed the back story of the Liveship Trader Trilogy to really understand it. So back I went to all three books.

This time I discovered that the characters I couldn't stand so much weren't much of an issue in "Mad Ship" which primarily follows three members of the Vestritt family. There is Wintrow, onboard the captured and newly awakened family liveship Vivica (who is being successfully wooed by the charismatic pirate Kennit) walking a fine line between being a captive of or for admiration of the pirate, who freed him from the slavery his own father bought him into. Malta, his sister, who is enjoying her first courtship in Bingtown-even if it from a Rain Wilds man she may have no choice to marry to save the family financially after the loss of their liveship. And Althea, who always expected to inherit her father's ship, hatches the most daring plan of all with the Vicica's former first mate Brashen, to take the abandoned and blind liveship Paragon-who killed two of his crews and is mentally unstable-out to find Vivica and attempt to ransom her back or recapture her.

At the same time political strife is stirring with Bingtown's homeland as their leader, a young and foolish man, prepares to visit the colony. Up the strange rain wilds river the origins of the fantastically strong wizardwood liveship are constructed out of is hinted at. In Bingtown itself trouble is caused by the increasing slave population. A strange prophetess with a way with wood befriends Althea and Malta and joins on to save Vivica. And the sea serpents continue their mysterious but all important search for both "she who remembers" and an illusive goal none of them can quite recall-but know the absolute importance of all the same...

This is really a great book and only enhances the mystery and overall excitement of the trilogy further. It's every bit as wonderfully descriptive as "Ship of Magic" in both landscape, history and characters but fortunately some of the more hateful characters have way less face time in this novel, or actually manage to grow a little so you don't feel like smacking them. I enjoyed this immensely and raced eagerly towards the third.

Five stars. And have the last book "Ship of Destiny" ready at hand-the ending is such you won't want to waste any time.
Book 2 in this series reinforced the idea for me that Hobb has no qualms with really putting her characters through some hardships. It seems like every time I think that things are really going to have to turn around, she manages to squeeze a little more pain into their lives. Sometimes knowing what could have been if only things had just gone a little differently is agonizing. I would characterize this style of writing as very dark in that nothing is sacred and I just can't help but mourn for these characters sometimes as I watch their lives and the world they know get torn from them piece by piece in the most agonizing ways. I have found that of the 5 Hobb books I have read so far, there really isn't a happy ending as such, just character growth and development and the tendency to either be crushed by destiny or to fulfill it.
I came to The Liveship Trilogy from the Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies. This is actually a sidestep between those two that takes place in the same world but in another region. Only one character from the other two trilogies is involved in this story yet all of it weaves together to form a 9 book series. If I had not had the luxury of choosing to skip from Farseer to Tawny Man in order to stay with Fitz Chivalry I would have read everything in sequence......which I now see is the best way though not essential. Hobb has skillfully written the trilogies so that you need not venture to the Liveship series in order to maintain continuity. Having initially skipped to Tawny Man I did not feel anything was missing. Enough information was provided to fill any potential gaps. However, this is not to suggest that anything in the Liveship trilogy is not worth reading. This series stands on its own as well as fits together with the other two. It is an emotionally gripping tale full of characters you will learn to love. Fortunately this one ends leaving room to continue in a future story. Where Tawny picks up and ends does not define where Liveship could go. I do not regret the order I read them in because I needed to stay with Fitz Chivalry's story at the time. The design of each tolerates such a sequence. But Ideally, do yourself a favor and read the sequence in order from Farseer to Liveship to Tawny Man so you can gain the most from this wonderful tale.
This is the second book of the Liveship Traders saga. In consequence, you know what the story is about because you must have read the first one so I won't bother explaining the plot.
What I can tell is that I spent many hours reading it. It brought me back to the good old days when I was not reading books only when I was on the toilet seat. It brought me back to pick it up as soon as I had 10 mn to spare and spend hours upon hours reading.
I think it is the best book of this saga.
I love Robin Hobb's books and the Liveship Traders is my favorite collection. I have read the assassin series and other works, but the Liveships are the best - both for the story line itself as well as the well-developed characters that evolve from book 1 to book 3. I don't want to share any surprises (spoilers) so I won't mention the plot much other than to say that it is satisfyingly complex without being too complex. Part mystery. Part fantasy. Part alternative society. You will become so totally immersed in this saga, you may find it difficult to put down without finishing. This is the second time I have read the series (I was shocked that it was no longer in the local library) and was pleased to find it on . Thank you, second hand book dealers.