Ship of Destiny (The Liveship Traders, Book 3): Harper

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I can't finish this review without making a stand. If you are an impatient reader (which I am) this series is not for you. The Realm of the Elderlings series is full of books that are long, detailed, and slow prosed. They are meant to be savored and unless you have been warned like I was (thank you hubby), you won't enjoy them. You will think why are all these details important? Why does it matter? I would answer that the key is most of the time in the details. The list starts with the S Tier and moves down from there. It also covers both PVE and PVP, with the “ Excels in” column clearly identifying where each weapon shines. Ranking Criteria Malta is, perhaps, the character that will go furthest in this. (Excluding Amber of course.) Her path has been intertwined with that of the dragons. Her development was wonderful; she went from an annoying brat to someone with real character: she grew up. Some of the other characters had semi-predictable endings. With her it was fairly surprising. Overall, this was a good ending to a good trilogy. I’m looking forward to seeing how Hobb uses elements of this in later books. To be a women in these books is to suffer. I don't think a single one of them escapes humiliation in some way. In contrast, the men escape lightly: in the course of the books, Serilla, for example, loses everything, but the Satrap gains more than he ever had (although admittedly suffering in the process); Althea loses so much, while Brashen only gains -- and Althea's gain of Brashen is portrayed as filling all the places in her life where she's lost, which troubles me. There's a general attitude in the men that women should be kept in the home, kept safe, and not let to do anything, because they can't. While the women in the books do manage things capably, it's always at a loss to themselves: Althea could marry Grag, but she would lose by doing so, so she doesn't, but she loses in not doing so, too. Malta takes control, but to do so she has to accept humiliation. Keffria learns to manage things, but knows that in doing so she loses her husband. Borowska-Szerszun, Sylvia (2019). "Representation of Rape in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders". Extrapolation. 60 (1): 1–22. doi: 10.3828/extr.2019.2. S2CID 166766551.

The characters, as is typical in a Robin Hobb book, are wonderful and arguably feel more real than any other characters in any other book. They are not static characters, and they all go through dynamic growth that feels so refreshing in a fantasy book when oftentimes fantasy characters stay the same through a series of a books. Ship of Destiny is a book by American writer Robin Hobb, the third and last in her Liveship Traders Trilogy. Paragon shook his head. “Teach yourself to believe you will succeed. … Be now what you must be to succeed at the end of your journey, and when the end comes, you will find it is just another beginning.” In the Rain Wilds, Tintaglia, the dragon freed by Reyn and Selden, saves them from the ruins of the underground city. Malta is stranded in a boat with the Satrap floating down the Rain Wild River. They are rescued by a Chalcedean ship. Malta ensures their survivals by influencing the Satrap's behavior. Believing Malta dead, the Vestrits and some Rain Wilders return to Bingtown, where they help negotiate a united Bingtown. Tintaglia is determined to rescue her kind from extinction, but she finds the landscape changed and must appeal to the humans for help. She defeats the Chalcedean warships and proposes an alliance with the Bingtowners. Reyn and Selden are changed by their connection to the dragon, becoming like the ancient Elderlings. Reyn agrees to help Tintaglia on the condition that she helps him find Malta. Describing the Liveship Traders as his favorite work by Hobb, author Orson Scott Card felt that she "arguably set the standard for the modern serious fantasy novel". [14] A similar sentiment was expressed by Booklist, who regarded the series as "probably the best fantasy trilogy of the past decade and a prospective fantasy classic", [15] and Publishers Weekly likewise held that it was "one of the finest fantasy sagas to bridge the millennium". [16] In a survey of Hobb's writing under both pseudonyms up to 2006, critic Don D'Ammassa called the Liveship Traders "certainly her best work to date", [17] and The Weekend Australian echoed this view in 2009. [18]I’ve praised Hobb on her characterizations strength in all my review of her books so far and I envisioned you’re going to see this as an occurring event. Hobb is seriously superb in developing her characters, especially in this trilogy. Almost every single character ended up playing a role that gave the story its own charm and none of the characters in this trilogy ended up the same way from their first appearance; I mean it, every single character has gone through their own battle and struggles that changed them, for better or worse. I had a problem with the serpents' POV in the first and second book, they felt completely unnecessary, but in here it all finally made sense why they were necessary. The only character that remains the same was Amber and there’s a special reason for that. That being said, I only gave Ship of Magic 5 stars, with The Mad Ship getting 4 stars and Ship of Destiny getting 4.5 stars. However, as a whole, this trilogy deserves 5 / 5 stars. This trilogy has cemented Robin Hobb as one of my all-time favourite authors, and The Liveship Traders trilogy has become one of my all-time favourite trilogies. I can’t wait to read The Tawny Man trilogy soon!

Ship of Destiny is the final book in The Liveship Traders trilogy, and all I can say about this series is... WOW! (Well not quite ‘all I can say’ because as you see I wrote a review.) The next best character development was Paragon. Through this book, we learned what truly happened to him and by who. Thanks to Amber in Ship of Destiny, he is comfortable in his own skin. Or should I say wood? Althea and Brashen are finally at sea together, sailing the liveship Paragon into pirate waters to rescue the Vestrit family liveship, Vivacia, stolen by the pirate king Kennit; but there is mutiny brewing in their ragtag crew; and in the mind of the mad ship itself. And all the while the waters around the Vivacia are seething with giant serpents, following the liveship as it sails to its destiny.Con una trama que partía de una idea sencilla, esta autora me llevó por las corrientes de un mar agresivo y caprichoso hacia el surgimiento de un relato sinfónico. Un relato largo, que se toma su tiempo para golpear, pero que, cuando lo hace, el derramamiento de sangre es seguro. Y la sangre recuerda. La sangre es identidad, y una parte de mi identidad se fue a bordo de las naves que vuelan en su cielo, que es el vasto océano. Ship of Destiny is not a light read. It's... very... heavy! Heavy feels, heavy twists, heavy quotes, HEAVY! Hobb is a master at constructing epic sentences while diving into the deepest depths of human nature. You want to take your time with this book to make sure you savor every single beautifully crafted sentence. I highlighted several quotes form this book. At one point I stopped because I would have run out of highlighter. (Yes, I destroy my books with highlighter, so what!? They are MY BOOKS!) Ship of Destiny is the third and final book in the Liveship Traders Trilogy. It was first published in 2000. The first two books are Ship of Magic and The Mad Ship.