Ship of Destiny (The Liveship Traders, Book 3): Harper

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Reread in 2023 and this series ending is still amazing and touching and emotional. This whole reread has been really wonderful and I am so pleased every time I return to this world as it feels like coming home* Malta is, perhaps, the character that will go furthest in this. (Excluding Amber of course.) Her path has been intertwined with that of the dragons. Her development was wonderful; she went from an annoying brat to someone with real character: she grew up. Some of the other characters had semi-predictable endings. With her it was fairly surprising. Overall, this was a good ending to a good trilogy. I’m looking forward to seeing how Hobb uses elements of this in later books.

If I have to say what I disliked about this book, I would have to say it had to do with where the story went with Kennit. I felt it was a wasted use of an antihero. I'm also not sure I liked the new Vivacia but I guess it had to happen. The next best character development was Paragon. Through this book, we learned what truly happened to him and by who. Thanks to Amber in Ship of Destiny, he is comfortable in his own skin. Or should I say wood? Robin Hobb's books combine heroic adventures by land and sea with a passionate urgency about the morality which underlies her character's deeds. Ship of Destiny, the third in The Liveship Traders trilogy, involves us further with the efforts of the Vestrit family to reclaim the fortunes which war and piracy have cost them, raising interesting questions about the sources of even an attractive family's wealth. It is clear that the liveships Vivacia and Paragon were carved from husks which should have hatched dragons; that the attractive personalities of the figureheads are only pale shadows of the autonomous beings they might have been. Malta Vestrit has freed the last of the real dragons from an underground prison, and he is not especially grateful. The slave-liberating pirate Kennit, one of Hobb's richest creations, is ever more drawn to the darker side of his flawed nature in an attempt to hide from the secrets of his past. a b c d Dray, Stephanie (November 5, 2001). "Revolutionary Nautical Fantasy: Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders Series". Strange Horizons.This trilogy, a tale set in the same world but in Bingtown, a trading city far to the south, involves stories that are influenced chronologically by the events Fitz has set in motion. The trilogy was comprised by Ship of Magic, Mad Ship and Ship of Destiny in 1998, 1999 and 2000 respectively. The tale follows the adventures of Liveship Vivacia as the magical ship comes to consciousness, and is taken over first as a slave ship and then as a private vessel. The course of Bingtown’s war with Chalced and their subservience to Jamaillia, was altered by the emergence of the sentient sea serpents that have a connection to the living ships. But this was to exact a price as well, Mad Ship and Ship of Magic were both nominees for the Endeavor Award. The Tawny Man trilogy This whole series has been perfection. It's not often that after reading a 2* book by an author I will continue on with their work but with Hobb I am so thrilled that I did go on to the Liveship books after the Farseer ones because truly she's a miracle writer and her ability to craft convincing, beautiful and stunning characters, worlds and ideas is unparalleled.

Soon the Shining Destiny and the 20th Fleet arrived in orbit of Siwenna undetected. The vessel remained in orbit while Bel Riose and Glawen Curr performed a stealth insertion onto the planet to meet with the Imperial information Ducem Barr. [4] The Home-Swarm [ ]Bingtown lies smoldering, the strata of its citizens as embattled with one another as they are against the invading Chalcedeans. Ronica Vestrit, the matriarch of a once-proud Trader family, finds herself destitute and labeled a traitor. She is the last of her line in the fiercely independent port city, and with nothing to lose but her life, resolves to remove the blight from the Vestrit name. As battles rage and infighting eats away at the heart of Bingtown, Ronica desperately tries to bring Old and New Traders, Three Ships folk and the ex-slave Tattooed together to save their city and themselves from being apportioned out to the greedy outsiders intent on destroying and looting their livelihoods. Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart A satisfying conclusion to the Liveship Traders trilogy and at the same time, it also made me super excited to start Tawny Man trilogy.

That being said, I only gave Ship of Magic 5 stars, with The Mad Ship getting 4 stars and Ship of Destiny getting 4.5 stars. However, as a whole, this trilogy deserves 5 / 5 stars. This trilogy has cemented Robin Hobb as one of my all-time favourite authors, and The Liveship Traders trilogy has become one of my all-time favourite trilogies. I can’t wait to read The Tawny Man trilogy soon! Con respecto a los personajes. Esta escritora logra hacerme ver con cada uno de sus trabajos que personas creadas por la imaginación también pueden ser reales. Reales a su manera. Pero reales. Carne de tinta y huesos de papel. Son así, y así deben ser. El desarrollo de los personajes es tan perfecto como sus diálogos.

Althea becomes first mate after Lavoy mutinies. She is protective of Clef and close friends with Amber and Jek, and still single-minded in her pursuit of the Vivacia. Eventually, the Paragon finds Vivacia and the two ships engage in battle that results in the capture of Althea and Jek, who believe the crew of the Paragon dead, and vice versa. Taken prisoner, Althea finally sees Wintrow again, whom she disdains since he now follows Kennit. Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?” Con una trama que partía de una idea sencilla, esta autora me llevó por las corrientes de un mar agresivo y caprichoso hacia el surgimiento de un relato sinfónico. Un relato largo, que se toma su tiempo para golpear, pero que, cuando lo hace, el derramamiento de sangre es seguro. Y la sangre recuerda. La sangre es identidad, y una parte de mi identidad se fue a bordo de las naves que vuelan en su cielo, que es el vasto océano. The character known as Amber is revealed through her actions in Ship of Destiny, when she carves a liveship's figurehead in the likeness of FitzChivalry Farseer, as the Fool from the Farseer trilogy. [12] [13] An enigmatic character whose gender identity shifts through the Elderlings series, Amber presents herself as a woman in some books and as a man in others. Scholars have described this portrayal of gender as subversive, and as challenging notions of rigid boundaries between genders. [10] [13] The New Statesman wrote that Hobb explored themes including slavery, political upheaval and gender equality, and said that despite its medieval setting, the series' themes echoed in the modern world. [6] Reception [ edit ] Still, I think Hobb's writing shines best in first person. I also noticed that when I read the Tawny Man trilogy, I enjoyed that much more than Liveships. I'm not sure whether that was just the return to the familiar characters, or whether it was in a large part due to the return to a single point of view.