"A truly extraordinary saga .
She is a native of Washington State..
She has also written as Megan Lindholm.
But her chief virtue is that she delineates character extremely well."--Interzone About the Author: Robin Hobb is the author of the Farseer Trilogy, the Liveship Traders Trilogy, the Tawny Man Trilogy, the Soldier Son Trilogy, and the Rain Wilds Chronicles.
Hobb\'s] plotting is complex but tightly controlled, and her descriptive powers match her excellent visual imagination. . . one of the finest fantasy sagas to bridge the millennium."--Publishers Weekly "Rich, complex . . .
Martin "A major work of high fantasy, reading like a cross between Tolkien and Patrick O\'Brian .
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Robin Hobb\'s books are diamonds in a sea of zircons."--George R. . .
Praise for Robin Hobb and the Liveship Traders Trilogy "Fantasy as it ought to be written .
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.
But the Vivacia has been seized by the ruthless pirate captain Kennit, who holds Althea\'s nephew and his father hostage.
And Althea Vestrit waits even more avidly, living only to reclaim the ship as her lost inheritance and captain her on the high seas.
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. . . "A truly extraordinary saga
