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After not reading this book for months because I found out I'm not the biggest "ship book" fan, I did find myself very amused by the personality of the pirate and the personality of the "monk" in the beginning. I hope the book stays entertaining!

Good fantasy world and character development. Moves at a good pace and I wasn't bored with any part. It didn't have me reluctant to put it down and deal with reality like some books I've read, but I did enjoy it and look forward to reading the next two.

I loved this & it also drove. me. crazy. I loved the characters & things just kept getting worse for them, and I spent a lot of the book plotting ways to get rid of Kyle. Or have someone take him down a peg. Or just punch him in the face. It took me so long to read it because I‘d get so mad at what was happening that I‘d have to take a break! Fantastic world-building, compelling characters, & a satisfying ending—I need to read the next book ASAP!

I finished the tagged book tonight, bringing my April total to 10 books! 🙌🏼 And I think it was one of my favorites of the ten, along with Felicity and The Shepherd‘s Crown. I still need to catch up on my reviews, but here are my April stats:

⚔️SFF: 4
📓Poetry: 1
👧🏻YA: 2
📰 Nonfiction: 1
🗯Comic: 1
🔍Mystery: 1

📖Print: 7
🎧 Audio: 2
🖥eBook: 1

📚TBR: 3
📖Owned/re-read: 2
🏫Library: 5

Reading outside at lunch on this grey & moody day. I‘m determined to finish this one in April—I‘ve been working my way through it for too long (kept getting distracted by book club picks and shorter reads). Only 130 pages to go!

I finished two books today (one audiobook and one middle grade) and started two others. I am absolutely loving the tagged book, as I expected. I love getting sucked into Robin Hobb's world! #24b4Monday @Andrew65 @TheReadingMermaid

So ready for today! Let's read! #24b4Monday

@Andrew65 @TheReadingMermaid

Yeah... because you need a good sci fi fantasy swap for spring lovelies! I‘ve just signed up... check out @Avanders page for details and fill that void in your reading calendar! #ssfs

I just started a new book at lunch, and I‘m kind of in love with the acknowledgments!

While I love all the books in Robin Hobb‘s Realm of the Elderlings, I love The Liveship Traders Trilogy just a teeny tiny bit more than all the rest. A fantasy series for adults with strong female characters, pirates, and talking ships - what‘s not to love! #24in48 #Hour30Challenge

Pirates!

What a fabulous giveaway, thank you @erzascarletbookgasm
This year has been an amazing one....I discovered Litsy! Which has led to finding some amazing bookish friends and fantasy books! It‘s just been the best reading year ever! How to continue the upward curve in 2019?
#festivebookishbox

The Farseer trilogy is definitely my favorite Robin Hobb and it is no contest but I've been working my way through this chunkster for a bit. Interesting characters and it felt like several different worlds within this one. Now that I'm done with this one, I'm wondering about many of the characters, so I will definitely finish the series.

⭐⭐⭐☄☄

I'm over halfway in Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb and I really like it. I'm slightly disappointed, but that's because of my sky-high expectations, the somber turns that the plot keeps taking, and the vague serpent talk. Everything else is all good and I can't wait to read the rest.

I have ‘Ship of Magic‘ lined up; the first in the ‘Liveship Traders‘ trilogy which follows the ‘Farseer Trilogy‘ but with a different set of characters and the action moved down the coast to Bingtown.

17 pages in and already loving this 🙌

I didn‘t love this book as much as I hoped. It‘s not bad, the premise & world building are, in fact, really fantastic but...BUT, the characters are uneven at best & as more than one reviewer has noted, Hobb can be wordy (I skimmed in places). The concept of liveships & their connections to certain families is an intriguing one & I would‘ve liked to see more focus on them & the magic system than on people behaving badly. Just ok for me.

😂😂😂

“This constant exposure to a woman was not good for a man.”

Long weekends need long books, don‘t they? At 809 pages, I think this one will do nicely. #11 of 50 in the deep dive.

So who do I believe? 😄

This took a while for me to get into but now I‘m loving it! #currentlyreading

I love Robin Hobb! If you press me hard enough, I might say the tagged trilogy is my fave but I can‘t pick a single book as favorite. I love them all too much ❤️

Hobb herself knows the struggles of picking a fave author: “I think I could write an entire book and still not answer this question entirely.” But I did learn that she loves GRRM‘s a Song of Ice and Fire 👌

#AGameofFavorites

Paperback stacks for today's #riotgrams. I adore mass market paperbacks.

Great milestones ! Great giveaway!

I recommend these brilliant adventures with some of the best strong women I‘ve enjoyed spending time on the page with for a long time!

#BookWorm50KGiveaway

Time for some epic fantasy and this one is blowing me away so far!

1 The Liveship Trilogy by Robin Hobb. Nothing comes close!
2 Game of Thrones- weekends, The Good Fight - weeknights!
3 Not a baseball on TV fan - better seen live. I have a soft spot for the NY Mets as many moons ago we got engaged at a Mets game during the 7th inning stretch!
4 Mezze - lots of homemade hummous, mini kebabs, flat breads and pomegranate salad
5 He loves the newspaper and his football magazines. No books though

#friyayintro

I'm 250 pages into my long overdue re-read of The Liveship Traders trilogy, and I can't believe I'd forgotten just how good it is! Robin Hobb is a genius.

#7favesin7days @lauren.lerner 📚

I can sometime finish a book, admire it /like it/ recommend it - but have missed the joy of reading it. In comes Robin Hobb! This is so well written, the language subtle & the character drawing & development swift and engaging. It‘s an engrossing span of a story, that held my attention well. I felt I was a side character, waiting in the wings, observing the play. It was a joy to read and reminded me that books are exciting places to live within.

#WeekendChat
1. By far the Realms of the Elderlings series by Robin Hobb. I‘ve read them all (and have started over), all 16 books and they get longer and longer. I wonder how many pages?
2. There are a few series I haven‘t finished, but none I‘ve actually given up on per se.
3. Shelf
4. I used to, haven‘t for a while. Hopefully I‘ll find one here.

These appeal not just to my craving for a well told adventure with a range of strong female leads - but they‘re so pretty ! #compulsivecollector

Robin Hobb knows how to write a great, #femalelead, and this series is full of some awesome, female characters 💪

#ReadingResolutions

Flights delayed 3 hours. Good job I‘ve got this! #yearofthechunkster

May only be reading one book in March! #880p !

The weekend #bookmail. Might have 2018‘s shortest and longest book here?? #loveaseries #newdiscoveries

Amazing! Such a vivid setting and characters! Well worth reading those 800 plus pages.

I've been reading this all week and it's so good, but sooo long! I'm hoping to finish it this weekend. #weekendreads #reading

Just finished this on audible. What a fantastic adventure. I love the complexity of the world, as well as the complexity of the characters. What a ride!! So looking forward to the next book, The Mad Ship.

I am currently listening to Ship of Magic. I am all in with Robin Hobb!! I am finding this trilogy more compelling than the first.

I love fantasy where the hero/heroes must #overcome some great obstacle. I love being at the edge of my seat, wondering how they will accomplish this great feat! Robin Hobb keeps me guessing until the end while having me hooked all the way 👌

#TuneintoNovember

My September 2017 reads. Few books, but many pages!
Not pictured: the 3 audiobook I listened to. 🙆

Thanks to my amazing sister-in-law @ChloeRosettaBell I am now very excited to have these books in my collection! Robin Hobb is an incredibly talented fantasy author, who never fails to hook me into a story from the very first page! I am beyond excited to read this series! #eveningsorted

After reading the Farseer Trilogy I knew I had to go on to the next series by #RobinHobb. I‘ve been blown away by the imagination in this series!

Pirates, sentient ships, family drama...what more could you want?! This one is slow to start, but I'm really enjoying it so far.

I'm trying to write and when I get stuck I read a chapter in Robin Hobb's Ship of Magic. Though I'd like to just keep reading...

So excited these FINALLY came in at the library for me! They sure seem well-loved...I'll take that as a good sign.

So I open up my next book and look what falls out. Someone's ultra sound from 1984😳. I have found some strange things in books but this tops them all.

Hi! This is one of my most favourite trilogies ever! 😍 Robin Hobb has created such an amazing world. Her books have a variety of characters with a great development through the series, also, there's magic, sentient ships and dragons! 🙌❤🐲 This trilogy is also part of a larger series, The realm of Elderlings and the first book is Assassin's apprentice! I highly recommend those too!

More for the actual real life TBR shelves! These are completely the fault of @Kalalalatja
But I am very happy to have a matching set of gorgeous UK covers - for whenever I actually get around to reading them 😆
(FYI: these were June buys - #nobuyjuly still going! Weakening daily...but still technically standing!)