Well, I caved and read those 50 pages too! I loved all the descriptiveness, so vivid! And Fitz of the opening was same old annoying Fitz. He really came alive when there was a crisis to deal with. A hunt.
Re: your question bout the timeline. Didn't Fitz give his age here as 47? Do we remember what his age was at the end of the Golden Fool series? Or, maybe we can remember this more easily: Molly's youngest son here is seventeen. How old was he at the end of the last book? A toddler, wasn't he?
I'm reading Fool's Fate right now, and he was 35 at the beginning of this trilogy (though he pretended to be 42). I would guess one or two years go by during this series, so that would make a gap of around ten years.
Timeline discrepancies drive me crazy, but maybe there's a reason for it. Perhaps it's supposed to feel like decades, though that doesn't feel right to me since Fitz just spelled out to himself that it's been "almost 10 years" since he last saw the Fool.
I hope you're enjoying reading the Fitz/Fool interaction in Fool's Fate for the first time! I'm looking forward to your take on the ending.
I don't think it's caving - it's efficiently bringing a couple of chapters forward to the weekend! I'm quite jealous of the people who commented to the FB post to say their bookstore is already stocking it, or their pre-ordered copy has already arrived in the mail.
As isiscolo says below, Fitz was 35 in Fool's Errand, so I don't see how "decades" could possibly be right. Maybe it's supposed to feel like decades, even though it's really only one.
I'll have to check Molly's youngest's age in FF, but I don't really want to know if that doesn't add up either!
I keep looking at the date in the corner of my computer screen. Is it the 12th/3th? No, still the 10th!
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Re: your question bout the timeline. Didn't Fitz give his age here as 47? Do we remember what his age was at the end of the Golden Fool series? Or, maybe we can remember this more easily: Molly's youngest son here is seventeen. How old was he at the end of the last book? A toddler, wasn't he?
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I hope you're enjoying reading the Fitz/Fool interaction in Fool's Fate for the first time! I'm looking forward to your take on the ending.
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As isiscolo says below, Fitz was 35 in Fool's Errand, so I don't see how "decades" could possibly be right. Maybe it's supposed to feel like decades, even though it's really only one.
I'll have to check Molly's youngest's age in FF, but I don't really want to know if that doesn't add up either!
I keep looking at the date in the corner of my computer screen. Is it the 12th/3th? No, still the 10th!
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