re: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Recommendation & Discussion Thread

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I read Assassin's Apprentice and... it just didn't do it for me. I think it's the point of view/narrator (Fitz reflecting back). It sucks, because I really wanted to enjoy it.

I'm a sucker for punishing characters ala GRRM, but Hobbs also kind of screwed Fitz over one time too many for me.

Anyway, I thought I would dig it because it's such a well-respected series (and I actually thought it was well written), but something just turned me off about it.

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About 2/3s of the way into it I thought i was going to hate it - but I enjoyed the ending enough.


It was a little annoying where you had like 3 or 4 different "apprentice training" things going on.

I really liked The Fool, so once I saw the 3rd trilogy was called the fitz and the fool i decided to see if some of the other trilogy's were worth reading.


I am a little hesitant on some of the older series these days, would have enjoyed them back in the day a ton - but they can seem a little stale once you've read similar stories written after that sort of undercut those expectations.