I LIKED it! That means I read the whole thing, to the last page, in spite of my life raining comets on me. ** I am shocked to find that some people think a 2 star 'I liked it' rating is a bad rating. But greedy men have designs to restore him, to sail the waters of the Rain Wild River once more. Now he lies blind, lonely, and broken on a deserted beach. The Paragon, known by many as the Pariah, went mad, turned turtle, and drowned his crew. Only to discover that the Vivacia has been signed away in her father’s will to her brutal brother-in-law, Kyle Haven. Althea waits for the ship that she loves more than anything else in the world to awaken. The liveship Vivacia is about to undergo her quickening as Althea Vestrit’s father is carried on deck in his death-throes.
Like many other legendary wares, it comes only from the Rain River Wilds.īut how can one trade with the Rain Wilders, when only a liveship fashioned from wizardwood can negotiate the perilous waters of the Rain River? Rare and valuable a liveship will quicken only when three members, from successive generations, have died on board.
I cannot wait to start the next one.The most precious commodity in the world. Ship of Magic will satisfy the reader who longs for adventure at sea. He suffers the way a human would if left in utter solitude. Overall it was beautiful, the characters rich with depth-like a pirate who wants to be pirate king, and an abandoned liveship named Paragon. Eventually I started to skim them, something I may regret when I start book two. Those scenes seemed too out of place, rarely revealing anything. Though most of the chapters were gold, I struggled when we switched to the sea serpent’s point of view. These ships are characters, a concept I found very cool! Some are wild with unsettled pasts, others are social and love to gossip. They can be unpredictable and difficult to control. The centerpiece detail of the series, liveships are vessels with talking figureheads crafted from wizardwood. We feel by the end that we’ve gotten to know them personally, even the pirate and the liveships. One of the book’s strengths is characterization.
These characters grow with each plot twist. It’s crafted with so much care, I found it difficult to tell who the villains were-and harder still to dislike them. Don’t let the length of the story frighten you: There’s hardly a dull moment in this novel, the first installment of Robin Hobb’s Liveship Traders trilogy. Ship of Magic sweeps us into a world of pirates and sailors, traders and sea serpents.
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