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The plot trickles slowly in those first few comfortable chapters as Fitz recites the events of the last fifteen years to the Fool, but when he eventually returns to the ruins of his former life in Buckeep, the plot whips into motion and he is tasked with locating Prince Dutiful, his sort-of son, in time for his wedding to an Outislander princess. Hobb spends a long time unfolding the strands of Fitz’s life, re-introducing the character in a slow but never lethargic manner. Without the love of his former friends and relatives, he’s sunken so deep into himself that he barely recalls how to exist. He thinks his isolated existence is the happiness and stability he deserves after years of painful service to the Farseer throne, but the true tragedy is, he’s not happy, not really. He is a shadow of his former self, past events having left him with a strong distaste for loyalty and politics. Set fifteen years after those events, Fool’s Errand, the first in the third trilogy, picks up Fitz’s story – and what a welcome return it is.įifteen years after Fitz and Verity saved the Six Duches from the Red Ship Raiders, Fitz lives in isolated life with only his Wit-partner, Nighteyes, and his adopted son, Hap, for company. Hobb’s second trilogy, The Liveship Traders, shifted the focus to the southern city of Bingtown, and was for many a dreary adventure in comparison. The Farseer Trilogy was an astonishing set of books, introducing fantasy’s favourite bastard, Fitzchivalry, (not you, Jon Snow) and forcing him through three novels worth of injury, tragedy and heartbreak before thousands of readers said their farewells at the close of the only underwhelming instalment in his story, Assassin’s Quest. The Tawny Man, Hobb’s second trilogy relating the story of Fitzchivalry and third overall, is perhaps the most often under-looked of all her works. No spoilers for the The Tawny Man trilogy.

Spoilers follow for Hobb’s first and second trilogies.