Fool's Assassin

[Raptori]

I've just finished reading it - but won't post any spoilers - and I'd say that for me it was at least on par with the other Fitz books. I found it slower paced than other books in the series, but I don't think it suffered because of that. I was a bit unsure when it was announced, since after so long I worried that this new Fitz trilogy wouldn't have the same feel and quality as the older books (I liked RWC, just didn't think of them as brilliant), but she's definitely hit the spot. Fitz's voice is captured perfectly as always, and the same is true for all the other characters.

The first two thirds or so meandered about slowly and gradually introduced a new major character, then the final third started to pick up the pace, and the book ended with what I felt was a brilliant final few chapters. Annoyingly it's a cliffhanger ending, but I kinda expected that. By major I mean at the same level of importance of Fitz - complete with many chapters spent from this character's viewpoint - and just as loveable as the Fool imo. The best parts of the book achieved that rare feat of making me completely unaware of the real world - the same thing happened at the end of the first book during the wine scene with Rurisk - and managed to keep it up for chapters at a time. The rest was engrossing, vivid and full of life despite there being the relatively slow-moving plot.

So yeah, all in all I'd say it's worth getting your hopes up