Robin Hobb in general

Robin Hobb is a Fantasy author. This is not her real name, she is actually called Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden but for some reason goes by the name of Robin Hobb when writing. She has done a few Science Fiction books but is bsset known for her Fantasy works. She was born in 1952 in America but spent most of her childhood growing up in Alaska. Now she lives in Washington where she writes her books. Some of Hobbs best known works are: The Farseer Trilogy, The Liveship traders trilogy, Tawny man trilogy and The soldier son trilogy. I have read all these except the Liveship traders. I first came accross Hobb a few years back when I ...  Read the complete review

Robin Hobb is an american auhor who also writes under the pseudonym of Megan Lindholm and is one of my favourite authors of all time. Though her books written under the moniker of Megan Lindholm for me are very dissapointing, her Six Duchies novels written in the name of Hobb are simply amazing and make up the best fantasy series I have ever read without any doubt whatsoever!! I first came across Robin Hobb entirely by accident; Assassin's Apprentice in hardback was in the sale bin at Waterstones one year and I picked it up, read the cover blurb and was intrigued. As soon as I had started it I could not put it down and rushed out to buy the next book in the ...  Read the complete review

(Please Note: Will be moved to the right place when the right place to move it to becomes available.) anyways, on with the review of book 1: This is, in fact, the seventh novel in Hobb's (aka Megan Lindholm) sequence set in or around the Kingdom of the Six Duchies. The first three books detailed the childhood and youthful adventures of FitzChivalry Farseer, bastard scion of the ruling Farseer line and junior assassin, while the second trio dealt with matters and characters distant from the Six Duchies proper, in Bingtown and far-off Jamaillia. The binding link between all the books so far has been the presence of that peculiar, oracular creature, ...  Read the complete review

As an avid reader, especially of fantasy and sci-fi, I was really happy when I found the first of the Farseer series by Robin Hobb. Having really enjoyed the first book, I soon powered my way through the entire series. However, I was more than ecstatic to find that she had also written a series based on living ships. Here I really found a difference. These books are well-written, and have beautifully crafted characters that you can really identify with, and want them to do well (or badly depending on the character). They also have a number of unexpected twists and turns and some of the "puzzles" and mysteries in the Ship books do ...  Read the complete review

it doesn't happen very often, I tend to read a lot and not buy the books but from her first book I was hooked and now she's firmly in my must by section. The first I heard of Robin Hobb was an extract of Assassin's Apprentice in a small book called Voyagers that was a freeby with lots of short extracts of upcoming sci-fi and fantasy titles. I read the extracts during a break at school and came onto Robin's just as I was about to go to a chemistry lesson...unfortunately I couldn't put the book down.....fortunately it was only an extract and not the whole book, if it had been the whole book my chemistry would have suffered ;o) Anyway as soon ...  Read the complete review