So a 2 star from me means,yes, I liked the book, and I'd loan it to a friend and it went everywhere in my jacket pocket or purse until I finished it. If a book is so-so, it ends up under the bed somewhere, or maybe under a stinky judo bag in the back of the van. It's a good book that survives the reading process with me. I LIKED it! That means I read the whole thing, to the last page, in spite of my life raining comets on me. ** I am shocked to find that some people think a 2 star 'I liked it' rating is a bad rating. Meanwhile, the sea serpents who follow sailing ships struggle to remember their history and return to their place of transformation.Įach volume in this series is a major undertaking, but those who enjoy original, epic fantasy, characters who grow and change believably, and fine writing will not want to miss The Liveship Traders. Malta, Althea's niece, seeks help from her suitor, the Rain Wild Trader Reyn, whose family is the Vestritt's major creditor. Brashen Trell, her old friend and shipmate, proposes that they sail to Vivacia's rescue in the liveship Paragon, who has lost two previous crews and is believed mad. Althea Vestritt, in training to become Vivacia's captain, arrives home to discover her beloved ship lost. Captain Haven is a prisoner his son Wintrow, who bears the Vestritt blood, finds himself competing with Kennit for Vivacia's love as she becomes a pirate ship. The Vestritt family's liveship, Vivacia, has been taken by Kennit, an ambitious pirate. Many unresolved questions from Ship of Magic are answered in this tale of sea serpents and dragons living ships made of wizardwood the Bingtown Trader families who sail the ships and their disfigured cousins, the Rain Wild Traders, who build them.

Robin Hobb returns to the sea with Mad Ship, the second book in a projected trilogy set in the same world as her famed Farseer series.

The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb