Shaman's Crossing - Robin Hobb

I have long been obsessed with Robin Hobb, even to the point where the boyfriend has come to the conclusion that he is fighting a bedroom war with her. This is a slight overstatement I have to make clear! But when word of a new trilogy hit me an awful lot of months ago my first reaction was to hit the bookshop and find myself a copy. And I will give credit, again Robin Hobb has written a masterpiece, however the remainder of the trilogy was a major let down as far as I was concerned. ===Boring details=== Title: Shaman's Crossing Author: Robin Hobb Publisher: Harper Voyage Published: 2006 ISBN: 13 978 0 00 719614 2 Price: ...

Shaman's Crossing is the first part of a brand new fantasy series from the author Robin Hobb who previously brought us The Farseer, Liveship and Fools Fate trilogies and whom also writes under her own name of Megan Lindholm with more limited success. Once again, Hobb has managed to deliver the goods with this cracking introduction to a whole new world not that far removed from our own; where the last vestiges of old magic are being challenged and expunged by the onslaught of modern civilisation in the dawn of a new era and where nomadic tribesmen are slowly being "tamed" much as the Native American Indians were in our own recent ...