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

[Lady Persephone]

Hello!

I've recently discovered the captivating world of the Six Duchies this past September when a co-worker placed "Assassin's Apprentice" in my hands only to have me two weeks or so later at his throat for the next book. Great was his grin and simpering smirk to find out just how obsessed I'd become with it (he KNEW this would happen!!) and I was livid when he took a few days off on holiday, leaving me crawling the walls to find out what happens next because I'd completed the first book over the weekend and thought I'd have the next book by Monday. Much to my chagrin I had to wait an agonising four days! I practically devoured the second book and Mark very wisely brought the final book in the trilogy with him and told me he had it in his desk when I was ready for it.

I've decided to read the books in a very odd order, which would probably make a lot of you wince, as it did Mark: I've begun the Fitz and the Fool trilogy and I'm currently reading the first book, "Fool's Assassin". I like knowing how things are going to unravel. I can't tell you how much sleep I lost during "Assassin's Apprentice" especially during Fitz's torment by Galen and his being dumped near Forge, then all the other cataclysmic events that befell him. I do wonder why Robin Hobb made him such a whipping boy! *lol*