Assassin's Quest - Robin Hobb

So ends the first trilogy. Still got several more to chomp through at my leisure, and very much looking forward to them. This book had a more active feeling on account of it being a quest and not confined to one place. Otherwise, more of the same. I loved the stuff about carving a dragon and imbuing it with your emotions. Seems like a metaphor for artistic projects. Very glad I borrowed these books. Fitz takes his place in my brain alongside Roland and Cloud.

Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb

More of the same, and very satisfying. Fitz is a wonderful main character, I really felt for him. There's a great line in this one, or passage, where he gets suddenly very angry at being moved around like a piece on a chessboard. Having had time to get acquainted with the setting and characters though, I have noticed these books are not all that well written. There not much economy, lots of kind of pointless adverbs and so on and it gets a bit frustrating. The story and characters make it worth it.