Books Underground: Royal Assassin
Bank Holiday means more time to relax, more time for the family and more time to read. In my hand, in these days, I had “Royal Assassin”, the second volume of the Farseer Trilogy, by Robin Hobb.
In the cover there is a quote from Janny Wurtz: “Refreshingly Original“… well I haven’t found all this originality in the book. As the first one, also Royal Assassin was quite nice to read, and its 750 pages went away quite fast, but there has been a lot of parts were I found myself bored by the story. Being bored by a book is definitely not a good thing!
In the end the book was again interesting, but I can’t think to have to wait 700 pages to get some good writing with good story and ideas.Royal Assassin - The Farseer Trilogy Volume 2
For a long part (maybe the longest part) the book is a birtright history, where there is the firstborn ready to become King and the secondborn (in this case thirdborn, but being the second book of the saga there had been more things going on) doing everything to get possession of the throne.
Well, as always I have been quite hard with my judgements, but it means that this book was good for the underground travels… but nothing more! I will read the third book of the trilogy, hoping for something better, but I fear that the quality will remain the same of the first books!
