Fool's Assassin spoiler thread

[BrilliantFarseer]

I'm currently struggling my way through Fool's assassin. I'm not sure yet whether I like it. Bee is a great character, but for the rest I haven't found anything really interesting yet, and I'm about 2/3rd in the book (Shun just arrived, and Lant is on his way).

Shun when Fitz first meet her and Shun when she arrives in Withywoods seem two completely different persons, and I'm not sure that one poisoning can change a person that much. She's also completely unlovable, but perhaps she's a Malta in disguise.

Not the first to make that connection, but I don't want to like her as I came to like Malta. There doesn't seem to be much redeeming about her. With Malta, even Reyn knew she was completely selfish but he made us see that as a positive in that she would fiercely defend her husband and child.