The Mad Ship
Books | Fiction / Fantasy / General
Robin Hobb
"The Vestritt family's liveship, Vivacia, has been taken by Kennit, an ambitious pirate. Captain Haven is a prisoner; his son Wintrow, who bears the Vestritt blood, finds himself competing with Kennit for Vivacia's love as she becomes a pirate ship. Althea Vestritt, in training to become Vivacia's captain, arrives home to discover her beloved ship lost. Brashen Trell, her old friend and shipmate, proposes that they sail to Vivacia's rescue in the liveship Paragon, who has lost two previous crews and is believed mad. Malta, Althea's niece, seeks help from her suitor, the Rain Wild Trader Reyn, whose family is the Vestritt's major creditor. Meanwhile, the sea serpents who follow sailing ships struggle to remember their history and return to their place of transformation." - product description.
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Author
Robin Hobb
Pages
906
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2000
ISBN
0006498868 9780006498865
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"Mad Ship: Thus named because you, the reader, will go mad reading it. <br/><br/>Hobb has an amazing talent for making the mundane interesting. In this installment, she also demonstrates an uncanny ability to write a really annoying soap opera, too. <br/><br/>The head-jumping is so pronounced and prolific that the only real accomplishment of the book (and the plot) is a final disconnect from ALL characters so complete that you really don't care if any of them die in the end. You kind of want most of them to die, in fact. <br/><br/>There are some really well-written bits. Sadly, they are either nonsequitur or they simply don't matter. Then there is the other 85% of the book, a mix of the infamously mundane and the outright obnoxious. <br/><br/>Trigger warnings for kidnapping and rape. Definitely a mature rating for some disturbing images and themes: a man tries to get his girl friend to seduce another man, a pig is slaughtered its remains smeared on personal property as an act of harassment. <br/><br/>If I read the third book, it will be due to insanity and unparalleled boredom. I have no hope that it will get better in this series."
Crimson Sparrow
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