I've mentioned in earlier posts for this year's reading challenge that perhaps my choice of material perhaps wasn't all together smart. It seemed like a good idea six months ago... Read the first book of a fantasy series each month. See what I think to it, see whether I'd want to read the rest of the series. And, having read a number of fantasy ( Read more... )

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Assassin's Apprentice was not unknown to me when I picked it as one of my dozen fantasy novels for this year's reading challenge. I knew that it was popular - the first book in a best-selling fantasy trilogy, in fact. I knew that Robin Hobb was a pen-name, used by Megan Lindholm (whose real name is actually Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden). I'd also ( Read more... )