Fool’s Quest (Fitz and the Fool, Book 2)

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Sure, I guess Jek might’ve taken on that role – Although it must’ve been after she met Amber because, otherwise, why did she not know her as the Fool? A man on the doorstep of death at the end of Fool's Assassin to a man adamant to avenge the death of his child, we see a drastic change in him here. How can neither Fitz nor the Fool make the connection that the boy who touched the Fool at the market and Bee are one and the same?

I've nothing to add to my original review, but I feel like until I have Assassin's Fate in my hands, I'll be trapped in a Skill-pillar.The first portions of the book were agonizing because Fitz just didn't know that his daughter had been taken and his keep raided, his people brutalized, raped, or killed. I’ve also raved about Hobb’s prose a lot of times but I still have to praise it yet once again because seriously, Fool’s Assassin and this book contained some of the best lines she ever wrote. This book has so much that I've wanted to see happen ever since the end of Fool's Fate - heck, some of it since early in the Farseers trilogy - that I kept dreading the moment when it all goes horribly wrong, but then - well, plenty goes WRONG, horribly, for everyone, in splendid traditional Robin Hobb paincake fashion, but the BOOK never goes wrong. Acclaimed and bestselling author Robin Hobb continues her Fitz and the Fool trilogy with this second entry, following Fool’s Assassin, ramping up the tension and the intrigue as disaster continues to strike at Fitz’s life and heart. Or maybe it is just that if you are different or unique, someone is going to want to hurt you, and you just can't let them do that.

This is a change from the more impetuous young Fitz we knew in the earlier books (and slightly frustrating for the reader) but at the same time, the slow pace didn’t bother me and I was never bored. And Fitz also overheard quite a bit about the Fool carving his face onto Paragon, so would he really be so clueless when Malta alludes to it yet again? So, even if it has been a little while since you read Fool’s Assassin, hopefully you remember the insanity that ensued right at the very end. The last section takes an odd twist and I think links into history/events from books I haven't read (the Rain Wild books? I found the first book of any of her trilogies/quartet to always be the best one—Assassin’s Fate have the chance to change this notion one last time—and that’s still true here.No matter what you people say about friendly kisses, I still think the way Kettricken treats Fitz is super weird 😳 You can’t just manipulate him into doing what’s best for you and then start smooching him whenever something bad happens to make up for it! Don't go into this book expecting rapid plot development, otherwise you are going to be sorely disappointed. This is one of the things that makes Robin Hobb's characters so especially vivid, and so easy to love. Like, why do they hate the dragons so much that they would go to such lengths to prevent the Fool from achieving his path? You are no longer the boy who chased Regal’s coterie through the halls of Buckeep Castle with a bared blade.