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Summary: A good book, interesting ending
Review: I thought this book was a well done sequel to the first in the series. The only reason I didn't give the book a 10 was because the ending, although interesting, left you hanging to much
Rating: 
Summary: An engrossing tale.
Review: All three of the books in this series spun a tale that kept my fingers turning the page. It was an engrossing story with believable characters that all had flaws and petty hatreds that made them seem real. The last book wrapped up a little quickly, but altogether, it was a good read and left a perfect opening for several sequels. All of which I would read
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Summary: this is in the same league as turtledoves,or watt evans best
Review: the author hobbs has creAted a fascinating,complex and great hero in fitz the royal bastard,assassin and hero.fitz is like the scarlet pimpernel,james bond and superman rolled into one.i just love it.i cant wait for the next episode.please make it as soonest as possibl
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Summary: *Not* Your Typical Read
Review: There are few books which capturedmy admiration and respect as much as this,along with it's sequel, _Assassin's Apprentice_. The reason I like the series so much is the way in which it plays with the reader's notion of "good" and "evil". Hobb shows the reader a shade of grey. The main character is an assassin, a character who is generally portrayed as evil, yet Fitz's struggle to turn his talents to good makes the reader both love and respect him. The reader is also made to feel his torment when forced to choose between his sworn duty to the King and Prince he loves, and the woman he adores. I would sincerely recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Good imagery on being a king's man.
Review: There are many things I am enjoying about this story line (Over two books so far).
o The main character is a bastard, born from a Prince (King-in-waiting) and a common woman. I have enjoyed how far the author has taken this in the Kings court. Where most of the people have looked at him as bastard, leeching from his King, hating him, the King himself has made him a tool which he uses in the background (an assassin), just like the King's half brother.
o The next piece of imagery I like is how the author has portrayed the concept of "being a king's man". Where the main character and his father figure have put duty above everything else. Atypical of how it is usually done, the characters have put there king or prince in the forefront accepting everything he does as what is right. They are ignorant of how that effects other people like there lovers.
o There are many conflicts which are happening over the story line, but two of the larger ones are coast vs. inland and six duchies vs. outslander
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Summary: Excellant sequel that is vastly superior to the first novel
Review: Definitely one of the most original series currently on the bookshelves,
Royal Assassin is one of the few fantasy novels that provides
surprises...as well as making you actually fear for the safety of the
characters
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Summary: Great writing, but a berserker or an assassin?
Review: An assassin who fights with the berserker rage, who wields an
axe and gets strength from a wolf. Good imagination, and fun
to read too, but Hobb's character lacks the characteristics of a true assassin. Also impossible to notice is the fact
that the hero ends up completely helpless at the end of each
volume, and gets rescued by either one or a couple of
friends. I enjoyed the book, but it left me repeating the
cliche, "Could have been better. "
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Summary: Great Fantasy
Review: Very inventive and original Fantasy. I had almost given up on finding another fantasy novel that did not depend on the old and repetitive plot lines. The pros are excellent and I can't wait for a sequel
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Summary: If you read fantasy you should read this
Review: In the tradition of Lord of the rings (Tolkien) and Memory Sorrow and Thorn (Williams) here is another trilogy with an unlikely hero.
Royal Assasin continues the story of Fritzchilvary, the bastard son of the late Chivalry. Despised by the current heir and recenly recovered form an attack by poison initiated by the curent heir to the throne he returns home to to find that things haven't become any better in is absence.
This book relates the second part of Fitzchivalries life in which the red ship raiders become ever bolder and the plots of the enemies ever thicker resulting in the eventual evacuation of buckkeep.
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Summary: Character-centered, plot more focused, excellent writing.
Review: In "Royal Assassin," Robin Hobb continues the development of Fitz's character as he perseveres through more young man's emotional growth. Hobb's strengths, the tactile first-person narrative and the fluid realism in Fitz's mental connections with other characters, flourish as Fitz's mind becomes even more intertwined with Prince Verity and a new animal character. This parallels his emotional development through interactions with the youthful Molly, the exhausted Verity, and the wasting King Shrewd. However, Hobb's consistent weakness, the glacially moving plot, struggles to carry this character development as Fitz languishes in Buckkeep for the first 500+ pages. The continuing Red-Ship raids provide external pressure on the leaders, but until Neatbay, the actual raids feel distant from the insulated narrative. Fitz's brief summer as an oarsman reads like a contrived plot detour to allow the narrative to witness a few battles, but the gritty counterattack at Neatbay provides a crucial visual face to the raiding and features key plot points for Fitz and Nighteyes, Burrich, and Kettricken. Against the backdrop of the coastal-inland political tension, the vicious royal intrigue feels like a natural element in this book, unlike the abrupt shift at the end of "Assassin's Apprentice." Hobb boldly casts Fitz emotionally adrift, as his three closest mentors, Chade, Burrich, and Verity, all spend long periods of time away from Buck before the conspiracies rush to a climax and Fitz descends into frantic countermoves. The ending would have been cheesy deus ex machina in the hands of a lesser writer, but hints in the Epilogue and the first pages of "Assassin's Quest" show that to Hobb, it is merely another character choice that has benefits and consequences. Hobb's intensely real depiction of Fitz's character and the growth she steers him through manage to carry "Royal Assassin" on the strength of that developing character alone, without any fast-paced ordinary fantasy plot.
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