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a let down

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The first two books in the series were well written, I got a feeling, however, that they were leading up to something really good. Fitz never really fully learned to skill properly and the limits of this gift were neer truly explored by the books. The final installment of the triology Assassins Quest had a good start to the journey, followed by what seems like too much pointless detail into the travelling, then followed by the worst ending I've seen in a trilogy. The ending is, in my opinion, the best bit in all books, but after I had finished the book, I wish I hadn't even started the trilogy. Much disappointment :-( Trudi Canavans Black Magician trilogy was much better!!!

Die horribly for turning Fitz into a little girl.

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I was amazed with Assassins Apprentice and loved Royal Assassin, but this was an atrocious way to end what could have been one of the greatest fantasy epics ever conceived. Yeah, she can write, there is no doubt about that, but the direction that she took Fitz in mentally is of a whining self pitying little girl. And he was anything but that in the previous two books. An absolute shame, and everything she's written since is pretty bland too.

Poor ending	Customer Rating:
Loved the first two. Deliberately saved the final book for my two-week holiday to Canada. Great start but it is as others have said: a rushed and poorly thought out ending. I could not believe what I was reading. She set the bar high but let the side down with a real shoddy finale.

Brilliant	Customer Rating:
It is without doubt a fantastic story; fast paced and enthralling. I would highly recommend it. Mind you the trilogy has stolen the last three days of my life- i've been unable to put it down!

Readers-on-a-Dragon are swept away in body and spirit

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I must say I revelled in the beginning of this story the very first time I read it, carrying on as it does from the excruciating cliff-hanger that brought `Royal Assassin' to a stunningly climactic close. It's a measured, thoughtful and yet utterly engrossing entrance into the final chapter of the Farseer trilogy and sets the tone very well indeed for all that's to come in this revelatory, far-removed and yet exhilarating concluding story. The first time I read this book I was so excited to learn how the events in the lives of FitzChivalry, the Fool, Verity and Kettricken would conclude that I realise now (having just read it for the second time) that I overlooked some lulls in the story, and there are some lulls in the middle particularly, albeit brief and still in the traditional, maddeningly-addictive Hobb style. These lulls are however necessary, for Fitz needs to come to terms with his own demons, delusions and short-falls before he can confront the powerful forces in Wit, Skill, brute force and cunning that will thwart him in the final series of battles at the end of this story. Therefore `Assassin's Quest' holds a special place in my heart, as the story that takes Fitz beyond the confining and defining walls of Buckeep, into the world and finally sees him become a part of it, aware of his failings, but accepting of his role as Catalyst, despite all the sacrifices from him it demands. In retrospect (and since Hobb has published the Tawny Man trilogy, which continues on the events in the lives of these characters) it's easy to read this book and have the certain feeling that much is left undone and unfinished in `Assassin's Quest' for Fitz and his followers. Or perhaps that's simply due to Hobb's expert story-telling ability in how she was able to gather all the many minute loose threads of this tale and weave them together into another trilogy of books so credible, vibrant and worthy of being told as the tales in the Tawny Man trilogy. But I must admit `Assassin's Quest' still feels to me to be an incomplete tale, or rather only a stepping stone leading to an even greater tale of keen human insight and heart-wrenching adventures. Luckily for us all this immensely satisfying and yet bittersweet example of story-telling is continued in `Fool's Errand', which you might be able to guess is precisely the book I am currently re-reading as you finish this review...