Hi Apples and welcome to the forum! Yes, it's often quiet here, but we do have a few regulars who check in often.
I'm one of those who thought that the ending was bittersweet but made sense. I don't think Fitz retreated back to isolation, he seems to be quite involved in the Farseer business even though he spends most of his time in his new home. Living with Molly and the kids and Burrich's horses etc probably isn't a very lonely life.
I think Fool's Fate is a book that needs to be read several times before all the pieces start to fit together. At least that's how it was for me. (My problems weren't in the end, but earlier in the story, and they started to make sense when I revisited them.) There are lots of little things and clues that are easy to miss.
About the Skill and prolonging one's life... I don't think any horrible consequences were mentioned. Actually, I'm not sure how it works. At first we were shown that Nighteyes seemed offended by being Skill-healed and later on Fitz seems to feel that his own healing was a bit odd too (doesn't he go and put back the outer side of his scars?) If I remember correctly, Fitz also seemed to think that Skill-healing somehow burned reserves, that it might actually shorten his life?
I'm one of those who thought that the ending was bittersweet but made sense. I don't think Fitz retreated back to isolation, he seems to be quite involved in the Farseer business even though he spends most of his time in his new home. Living with Molly and the kids and Burrich's horses etc probably isn't a very lonely life.
I think Fool's Fate is a book that needs to be read several times before all the pieces start to fit together. At least that's how it was for me. (My problems weren't in the end, but earlier in the story, and they started to make sense when I revisited them.) There are lots of little things and clues that are easy to miss.
About the Skill and prolonging one's life... I don't think any horrible consequences were mentioned. Actually, I'm not sure how it works. At first we were shown that Nighteyes seemed offended by being Skill-healed and later on Fitz seems to feel that his own healing was a bit odd too (doesn't he go and put back the outer side of his scars?) If I remember correctly, Fitz also seemed to think that Skill-healing somehow burned reserves, that it might actually shorten his life?
"Green nubs on the dry sticks of the clematis promised that the appearance of death was not death itself." - Ship of Destiny
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