Why aren't the Witted vegan!?!?!

The tears were so much during Fool's Fate. Hope you enjoy Fitz and the Fool. It is truly amazing.

Fitz and the Fool are the best friendship in fantasy imo. They are so underrated to me. Locke and Jean are an amazing friendship from the Gentleman's Bastards, but this friendship...oh it is so nuanced. I think the first person perspective actually makes it feel so real. You are in the head of Fitz, feeling all the highs, lows and varying emotions. But you only understand on a more base level the Fool's perspective, because the Fool is such an enigma. Fitz's complexity and nuance combined with The Fools mystery and deflection creates an explosion of emotions to the reader.

Yes completely agree that RotE has lots of genuinely hopeful and uplifting moments! It always kinda bothers me when people call this series torture/trauma-porn. Like, yes, I've cried more tears over this series than any other but I'd say the emotional moments are almost always more bittersweet than just bitter. Tawny Man especially is so damn heartbreaking but the ending is also so beautiful ;_; Can't wait to hear your spoilery thoughts!!

Can't wait for the spoilers discussion! The happy moments in the books are so beautiful. Without the highs, the lows would not hurt as much.

I have just started my third read-through of the Realm of the Elderlings; it’s like coming home! It makes my heart sing. That’s not to say it’s not an emotional rollercoaster- oh god it is, it most certainly is! I’ve just started the last book of the first trilogy and I know I’m going to have two minds about leaving Fitz to board the LiveShips at the end. I want to gather Fitz up and stop him from making any more bad decisions! I do envy you reading the last 7 books for the first time ; tissues ready??

Honestly, this trilogy has a perfect ending. Brings a smile to my face.Great review 😊. I agree Thick. I love him lol. He suffers a lot in a third book lol 🤪. He's so innocent.

Fools Errand is one of my favourite books ever. Even as a standalone.

I'm so sorry for implying the need for tissues was only for heartbreak! This trilogy had me weeping tears of joy just as often, the reunions here were profound, and they hit the soul just as hard as other events. Possibly one of the most minor, was with Blade, who - not recognizing 'Tom', continues to speak well of Fitz despite the commonly held belief of treachery. I thought that was beautiful. Like other commenters have said, I think this is the pinnacle of RoTE in terms of both quality of writing and emotional pay off. However excellent Fitz and Fool is, however satisfying RWC is, however much closure the entire saga gives - this trilogy - these emotional beats - that climax - simply sublime. *spoiler* (only for Tawny Man - you're good if you haven't read further) Everything between Fitz recovering Fool, to the moment he returns to Prilkop's cave with him - I'm a wreck every time, for the magic systems to crash into each other in such a way as to literally allow them to BE each other?! Holy crap that's some writing right there. AND, as a mother, reading of Patience and Lacey after so many years? That gets me every time too. I could go on about so many moments in this trilogy, but if you've read it, well, you know.

Couldn't agree more! Fool's Fate absolutely destroyed me - it might be Hobb's best book! I agree that it's not all pain, though. I'm so glad I found your channel - I am really resonating with your passion for ROTE and Hobb's incredible writing and characters. They are so tangible.

Great review! This trilogy is perfection and I loved the ending 🤩

Loved the review. Can't wait for the discussion.

Great thoughts! "Alive" is a great word to describe the series. Tawny Man is where you first start to see that time passes and you come back to familiar people and places it all just evolves so organically. I'd say it's also true with settings as well as characters - for example Buckkeep to me is one of the best realized settings in fantasy. I'm convinced if you dropped me into it I'd know my way around, and she pulls that off with other places as well. Totally agree about GRRM and Hobb. Love their writing and keeping track of all the details is so rewarding. Great point about the Skill and the Wit being the perfect complementary magic systems to this series. They're both about bonds/relationships/communication so it really lets the story transcend the first person narrative in the best way possible. Also to answer one of your questions, (small Farseer spoilers), the Fool always carved things but after touching the skill with his fingertips in Assassin's Quest he can 'sense' what the wood wants to be when he touches it so he kind of gets carried away sometimes.

Also, Kettricken is just the best. And the way Dutiful says she talks about Fitz is just FEELS.

This was easily my favorite trilogy of the first three which is saying something given how good the first two where. I feel like the suffering she puts here characters through makes the heartwarming moments all the better you feel like they have earned it. I think the reason behind the fools carving is mentioned at some point but it might be in a later book it it is not really a spoiler but i will put in spaces just in case SPOILER. I think it's mentioned that as a child one of his parents made a living selling toys and stuff so he got it from them.

Absolutely fantastic review Jimmy. Been putting off watching until I finished the series but I agree with virtually everything you said. And I agree, I am also content.

I love the way you love Hobb because it is damn near a mirror image of my own feelings toward the series. Hobb was such a wild surprise to stumble upon, and I’m so glad I did. My first Hobb book was actually a gift from my ex-mother-in-law, who said she just grabbed a fantasy book off of a shelf for my birthday. It sat on my personal shelf for well over a year before I read it. That woman has no idea how her random grab from a shelf would end up manifesting into the most enriching reading experience that I could have imagined.

I love Tawny Man so much... Probably my favourite RotE tilogy :)

Great review ty!!

Great review, I loved this trilogy from beginning to end.

Such a good video, that reunion towards the end of Fool's Fate still gets me 3 years after reading it. Hobb is definitely the underrated giant in the fantasy genre hands down. I am so looking forward to the spoilery discussion! Will Chris and Jake once again be joining in for the livestream as well?

Great review(s)!

Wonderful review, as always. Tawny man is a masterpiece, a perfect continuation of the Farseer trilogy (and a perfect ending). Can't wait to hear your spoilery thoughts!

loved this, can't wait for your spoiler review :)

Great review for an amazing set of books. While I personally gravitate more to Liveship as her best trilogy I think it's fair to say that Fool's Fate is so far the best RotE book. It has so many heart wrenching moments and emotional gut punches and one of the best endings I have ever read. Can't wait for the spoiler discussion!

Ah, so happy to see someone who loved this trilogy so much. I've seen a lot of people dismiss it as 'not as good as Farseer', which I do get - that might have been my reaction, kind of, the first time round - but with each reread I love and appreciate this one more and more. Fool's Errand may, indeed, be my favourite RH book. It's certainly the one book (by anyone) that I've cried at the most.

Hi there! Excellent video! It’s been a few years since I read Farseer and the Liveship trilogies. I still remember the major plot points and who all the main characters are, but a lot of the smaller details I don’t remember. Do you think it is necessary to go back and read those again before continuing to Tawny man? Thanks!

I have 1 Hobbs book in my library right now, which I got in a book box at a yard sale a few years ago. Don't remember the title right offhand, but I think I need to put it in line on my TBR right behind working through and finally finishing the Dark Tower series, which is next up after I finish Geomancer by Don Callander. [Sp.?]

Great trilogy review. Never have I read a book by Hobb but this review sounds like a series sequel to Farseer Trilogy.

Wooooohooooo i can finally watch this video and understand it 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Thick was my favorite new character. I felt such empathy for him!

I used to hate Molly for being selfish but now when I think about her motivations I can understand her better. I understand that she is just so realistic as a person

Haven’t even read liveships yet but I enjoy taking a peak to wet my appetite.

YES! TAWNY MAN HYPE! But also, if the Wit companion is a herbivore, then the person is also a vegetarian or vegan. In the novella set in the RotE, without spoiling anything, there is a character whose companion is a horse, and the dude is iirc vegetarian (he also legit chews grass). 😂

Tomorrow (3/31/2022) I'm visiting with my former co-workers at the Barnes & Noble where I used to work. I'll be looking over some novels by Robin Hobb as part of my potential purchases.

Totally great video! Also this is totally a spoiler: fitz bonds a rainworm named kerry, after his childhood friend

Would you recommend reading the Realm of the Elderlings in publication order. Or is the reading order a bit more flexible than that

Realm of the Elderlings will be my next "big" fantasy series I'll be focusing on after I'm caught up on/finished Malazan Book of the Fallen, Stormlight Archive and/or Dresden Files. But seriously you're making me want to throw what little semblance of a functional TBR I have out the window to read Realm of the Elderlings (and Memory Sorrow & Thorn)😂

Yes, you could say carving is ultimately important in the Farseer Saga. :) Fitz is my favorite literary character bar none.

It Fitzzzz!!!😂😂😂😂😂

I just found this book at a used book store. Never read Hobb before was wondering if I can start here?

Haven't read it yet put I'm in assassin's apprentice and loving it.

Really excited to read this entire series. I finished Assassin’s Apprentice, then I’m finishing Leviathan Wakes. Have you read the Lies of Locke Lamora? I recently read that, and I fell in love with it.

Spoiler warning for the trilogy I guess I really liked I think in Book 2 Golden Fool that we got and update about our friends in the Liveship traders through the Fool and Jek (was that her name) and to see Selden Vestrit again. Also about the ending: I liked the happy ending but have 1 major and 1 not so major problem with it: The not so major deal; when Molly and Fitz got back together did say have to do it outside only a little walk away from Molly's children? And the major one: I felt Burrich's death was forced to get Fitz his sweet childhood love Molly back. I mean I even was shocked that the times were so bad on Burrich. He was just in his early 50's I think and already so weak even tho he had quite an active lifestyle and Chade is around 70 and out and about without issue so Burrich's fraility and death was forced to me. But a bunch of very nice characters: basically all of Burrich's brood especially Swift and Chivalry, Nettle, Web, Dutiful and Elliania and of cource our hopeless romantic Ha. But damn I hate Starling she's the worst

Fitz says himself "I am a father to two children but parent to neither." Whereas with Hap he is not his father but he is his parent. This is the best trilogy I have ever read..I assume only as long as it takes me to finish Fitz and the fool, haha.

Definitely Fools errand is my favorite book in all 3 Fitz trilogies It DESTROYS me every single time I read it... Gah!!! And Tawney man trilogy is my favorite of the three Fitz trilogies...

All that matters is that we are The Fantasy Nuttwork’s pack and he’s the leader 🐺🐺

Fool's Fate is quite literally my favorite book of all time.

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I think prophets just have a thing for carving, amber carves too and i def think she a prophet ** liveship SPOILER warning**

bro i know u arent even going to read the comment but i need to say.... in the last bits of fool's fate we get this chapter where fitz sees the rooster crown and wears it while holding fool's dead body and after wearing the crown he hears different voices of people trapped in it ...... and one of those people say that they are the rainbow of history and all people are of different ages/time era and one voice look at fool and say he should have given his memory to the dragon and thus could have lived on even after his bodily death.... bro!!! is it not a cool and kinda sci fi concept when we have curently heard tht scientist of 21st century are trying to trap human minds into a database of some sort to .... kind of immortalize our brains even when our bodies die? i have just read tht chapter and i have goosebumps.... also the way fitz used skill to convince fool's dead body elements tto not return to earth but to realign themselves as fool was ... interesting. that was described as 'guiding of changes' by Hobb which again subtly,oh so subtly brings Fitz's role as the 'Changer'. fitz here changed the very principle of our being:death. a changer indeed. (ROTE have 3 recurring themes imo- first is human misery - second memory and third recurring turn or cycle of events) also the theme of memory and importance of memory is hardly discussed when i hear about ROTE but why does no one talk about it?! also the recurring events theme is brought subtly by Hobb so it kind of justifies why few people talk about it... anyway she brings her themes so subtly tht u cant even notice it unless u ponder on it. This woman is unbelievable! this is the first time im loving a female author's work this much.... its now my favourite series of all time and im still at the Fool's Fate.

The fool always had a flair for arts and crafts I think and the reason he has really picked up on carving is because of Farseer spoilers below: Because he has skill on his fingers he can do a Michaelangelo and feel the grain and life and history of the wood and it helps him carve and coax out the hidden shapes within to make his masterpieces. The sensitivity can be overbearing and why he usually wears a glove but he freely uses it for his carvings.

First. That’s an EXCELLENT question. But maybe as carnivorous animals - all animals accept the circle life. Just so hard to finish THE BEST TRILOGY (Tawny Man) and have to move on to what should be at least a great quad (I absolutely love Sintara and the Dragons!!) yet end up so annoyed. It’s not because it’s not about Fitz but because it’s just written so poorly comparatively. Word choice. Sentence structure. Grammar. Cadence. And RIDICULOUS REPETITIVELY EXPLAINING THE SAME STORYLINES. Ugh. Sorry. Just can’t hear about the “rules” for the born with too much of the Elderling touch. One. More. Time. O M G It has forced me to literally not care if the dragons just end up eating all the people. 😂 Could’ve. No - should’ve been better in too many of the most basic ways. It makes me think it was written first like a LOOOONG time ago. It’s too amateur for Hobb. Especially after just absolutely LOVING the brilliance of Tawny Man Tri. 😭😡😭😍

I'm tired of Thick. I'd like to say more but this is a spoiler free review.

You should probably stop making videos since you're getting close to that ominous 3k subs marker. Some may classify you as a sellout if that happens.