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

[fool-ish]

I bought SS when it was released, and while it's different than RotE, it's not as bad as it's depicted. I must admit that after my first read I was quite negative about it, but that's not because of the books, but because of my expectations not living up. Nevare is still not on my top 1000 of favourite characters in Hobb's books, but Spink and Epiny make up for that.

Spink and Epiny were the only saving grace...Nevare was far too straight-laced for my liking, and though I think things may have gotten a bit more exciting in the next books, I could never quite visualise Nevare as anything other than boring. Perhaps I'll read them one day, mainly because I think I should, rather than because I want to, which doesn't particularly bode well..