Jun-08-2014, 11:03 AM (UTC)
I've just finished Fool's Errand. I find this book immensely impressive.
I thought I'd be okay this time round with... a certain bit near the end, but no, I wept like a little girl again. (I don't think any other book has had this effect on me ever.) This was at 2am. I'm now drifting around feeling bereaved.
The chapter earlier on where Fitz is interrogating the archer is heartbreaking too in a very different way. I don't think it's affected me as much on the previous reads. Not sure why it does now; presumably I'm older (certainly) and wiser (arguably).
The whole book has a deep sense of tragedy to me. And there's something about the sudden shift from the rather epic feel of the end of Farseer and all of Liveships, to a kind of very intimate story with its small cast and, as noted above, concentrated timeline, that I find very powerful.
I thought I'd be okay this time round with... a certain bit near the end, but no, I wept like a little girl again. (I don't think any other book has had this effect on me ever.) This was at 2am. I'm now drifting around feeling bereaved.
The chapter earlier on where Fitz is interrogating the archer is heartbreaking too in a very different way. I don't think it's affected me as much on the previous reads. Not sure why it does now; presumably I'm older (certainly) and wiser (arguably).
The whole book has a deep sense of tragedy to me. And there's something about the sudden shift from the rather epic feel of the end of Farseer and all of Liveships, to a kind of very intimate story with its small cast and, as noted above, concentrated timeline, that I find very powerful.
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