Ship of Magic, Robin Hobb
Ship of Magic, Robin Hobb
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Ship of Magic

Author: Robin Hobb

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Unabridged: 35 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/22/2010

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic


Synopsis

Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships—rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia.

For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her—a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim. For Althea's young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard ship, Vivacia is a life sentence.

But the fate of the Vestrit family—and the ship—may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles...and the first step of his plan requires him to capture his own liveship and bend it to his will.

About Robin Hobb

Robin Hobb is the author of four well-received fantasy trilogies, the Farseer trilogy, the Liveship Traders trilogy, the Tawny Man trilogy, and the Soldier Son trilogy. Writing as Megan Lindholm, she authored Wizard of the Pigeons, Harpy's Flight, The Windsingers, and The Reindeer People. Her short fiction has won the Asimov's Readers' Award and has been a finalist for both the Nebula and Hugo Awards. She lives in Tacoma, Washington.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Petrik on May 04, 2023

4.5/5 stars Color me impressed, just the first book in the Liveship Traders trilogy alone is already better than the entire Farseer trilogy. Don’t get me wrong, the Farseer trilogy certainly has its charm but the third book of the trilogy, Ass Quest, was a massive disappointment for me. Fortunately, t......more

Goodreads review by Regan on June 09, 2023

Truly one of the best books I have ever read......more

Goodreads review by Matt's Fantasy Book Reviews on April 13, 2022

Possibly the best pirate book ever written Check out my new youtube channel where I show my instant reactions to reading fantasy books seconds after I finish the book. I was sad to learn upon finishing the Farseer Trilogy that the next trilogy in the Realm of the Elderlings moved on to ent......more

Goodreads review by myo on September 30, 2024

robin hobb has no right to be this amazing at storytelling......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on January 19, 2018

This was good, but it wasn’t as good as Robin Hobb's Farseer books. Fitz is an excellent narrator, and an excellent focal point for a series, though this uses several point of view characters. Some are great and some are, unfortunately, as dry as dust. Wintrow was by far my favourite character in th......more