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Loading... The Mad Ship (Liveship Traders) (original 1999; edition 2000)by Robin Hobb
Work InformationThe Mad Ship by Robin Hobb (1999)
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  ) mrbearbooks | Apr 22, 2024 |  The only thing that holds this back from 5 stars is being brought up short from time to time by evidence of the lack of editing I noticed on the first Liveship Traders volume. This varies from confused subjects to really klonky grammar mistakes. But there are not a huge number just quite a few scattered through this 900 page book. ( ) kitsune_reader | Nov 23, 2023 | Hobb's characters are made of much stronger stuff - and I keep hoping that each strong woman will find her way without the help or support of a male lead - but have so far been quite disappointed. Don't get me wrong - the story is absolutely amazing. The world-building is enticing and beautiful. The characters are believable - even lovable. Most of them are female - which I love - I'm just too damn old and have seen too damn much of life to give 5 stars to a story that still finds women lacking, despite all their strengths and capabilities. Maybe I'll have a chance to ask Hobb about this at her Denver Comic Con panel this Saturday! ( ) BreePye | Oct 6, 2023 |  ) leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 | ) wolfe.myles | Feb 28, 2023 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML:“A truly extraordinary saga . . . The characterizations are consistently superb, and [Hobb] animates everything with love for and knowledge of the sea.”—Booklist As the ancient tradition of Bingtown’s Old Traders slowly erodes under the cold new order of a corrupt ruler, the Vestrits anxiously await the return of their liveship—a rare magic ship carved from sentient wizardwood, which bonds the ships mystically with those who sail them. And Althea Vestrit waits even more avidly, living only to reclaim the ship as her lost inheritance and captain her on the high seas. But the Vivacia has been seized by the ruthless pirate captain Kennit, who holds Althea’s nephew and his father hostage. Althea and her onetime sea mate Brashen resolve to liberate the liveship—but their plan may prove more dangerous than leaving the Vivacia in Kennit’s ambitious grasp. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Robin Hobb's Ship of Destiny. Praise for Robin Hobb and the Liveship Traders Trilogy “Fantasy as it ought to be written . . . Robin Hobb’s books are diamonds in a sea of zircons.”—George R. R. Martin “A major work of high fantasy, reading like a cross between Tolkien and Patrick O’Brian . . . one of the finest fantasy sagas to bridge the millennium.”—Publishers Weekly “Rich, complex . . . [Hobb’s] plotting is complex but tightly controlled, and her descriptive powers match her excellent visual imagination. But her chief virtue is that she delineates character extremely well.”—Interzone. No library descriptions found. 
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Group read: The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb - The Liveship Trilogy
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