Evan’s Reviews > Royal Assassin > Status Update

I just got a bad feeling about Rosemary yall I cannot handle one more thing going wrong. Robin Hobb writes to make one miserable. If I read all 16 fucking books and end up sad I’m gonna blow up.

“You fog me, bastard. You multiply the futures a thousandfold, just by your existing. Catalyst. From some of those fogs go the blackest, twisted threads of damnation, and from others shining twines of gold. To the depths or the heights, it seems are your paths. I long for a simple death for a master who was kind to a freakish, jeering servant.” Spitting bars fr

Actually why are these the most gut wrenching 20 pages of my life

NO I WAS WRONG ITS WORSE THAN I THOUGHT SO MUCH WORSE

“In another part, I wondered what it would have been like to call him “Grandfather” instead of “my king”.” STOP IM GOING TO FUCKING KILL MYSELF

MY KING YES I MISSED YOU SO MUCH PLEASE SOMEONE KILL REGAL

We are so back I’m locked IN rn

Okok we’re getting back to it yall. I just don’t think I’ve read a fantasy series that has such an action deficit. This is political fantasy and it’s GOOD trust it’s just different and a bit slow if it’s not what you’re (I’m) used to. I care ab the characters I care about the plot. I want it to end well but all Hobb knows is pain. Pray for me fr

Okay she has a middle of the book hump thing going on but I’m digging it again. Fitz needs to get his head out of his fucking ass and help the king tho fr why are we all not doing more for him bruh

I understand we are being told this story as a biography or memoir or whatever but very few scenes feel grounded? You flutter from scene to scene with a constant inner monologue. Even the supposed high action scenes are VERY briefly detailed. It leans more into stream of consciousness writing than true “high fantasy” which is what I was expecting. It’s also taking forever to pick up. Let’s push through boys