"First, let me introduce you to yourself" (Beware RotE Spoilers)

[Cecilyk]

Hi everyone! I'm scouring the web for Hobb sites after my second reading through the Farseer Sextet left me bereft and exhausted. You know the feeling, I'm sure.

I found Hobb in a strange way, actually. Someone recommended Robin McKinley's books to me, but I couldn't remember her name when I was finally in the bookstore. I just knew there was a 'Robin'. So this is how Assassin's Apprentice ended up on my bookshelf. It stayed there for over two years (can you imagine?!) before I read it. Even then I wasn't as enthused as I plainly should have been. However, once I got into the next couple books, I was a goner.

I, like a lot of you, read Farseer and Tawny Man before I read the Liveship Traders trilogy. I have to admit that as a standalone trilogy, the Liveship Traders is the best one. It's the most self-contained, in my opinion. However, I am so entangled with the Buckkeep characters that I have to pledge my love to them. I just reread those six books and now that I've read the Liveship books, everything else made a lot more sense. I think my favorite book out of all 9 is Fool's Errand, but that's rather like trying to pick my favorite child.

I bought the Soldier Son trilogy when I was in London last summer and ripped through those as well. Not my favorite fantasy trilogy, but they're still on my shelves, which is saying something. I'm glad to meet you all and you can find more of my ramblings about these and zillions of other books over at my livejournal: http://narniadear.livejournal.com