How did you get involved with RotE (spoilers Farseer, TM & Soldier Son)

[londonlassie]

I read them all in the wrong order. I started with Liveships when I was about thirteen and whining because I had nothing decent to read, and my mother - very vexed - threw Ship Of Magic at my head and told me it was decent and ought to shut me up for a couple of days.

I turned into a Kennit fan faster than Vivacia, devoured the whole series in a matter of days, spent another couple of days crying over how sad his story was, then went out and bought the Farseer series.

I wasn't impressed, didn't link to the story or characters, and felt very sad because I only managed to struggle my way through it rather than gobbling it up like I did LST. My mother bought me the Tawny Man trilogy, which I was reluctant to read because it was about the same characters I didn't gel with in the Assassin trilogy, but weirdly I managed those in a few days as well, and really enjoyed them, despite still not linking with the protagonist.

I haven't read Soldier Son, but my mother did, and since she was full of praise for the other Hobb books and said she hated SS - and since most people on Hobb forums seem to dislike it - I decided not to buy them. And I've chugged down the Dragon Keeper series, minus COD which I haven't bought yet.