Review #1
Ship of Miracle (The Liveship Traders #1) audiobook free
Ship of Miracle is that not just one of the best fantasy books I’ve read but one of the best fiction books I’ve ever read. I was reluctant to quit Fitz right behind final finishing the 1st trilogy. But it turns out that I enjoyed Ship of Miracle even more. As this is that only the 1st book of a trilogy, it makes for even higher praise.
Abundance books at the same time other pieces of art quit for you feeling that maybe for you yourself managed have slapped it together with just a little work. But this book is that a inimitable at the same time irreproducible masterwork of craftsmanship from start to final. For you are left wide-eyed asking, “how did for you doooo that?”
The pages are dripping with heart, care at the same time wisdom. The plot at the same time storytelling are beautifully paced. The world-building is that done so but that for you simply take into discussing timber. The dialogue at the same time characterization are so witty for you feel like for you are sitting at a table listening to old comrades.
For me, the most breathtaking nuance of Hobb is that her sensual intelligence at the same time tenacious of true human nature at the same time human behavior. Quality at the same time evil will overlap between manners. People act with nobility in one scene while flawed at the same time greedy in one more. Any disposition struggles with very believable conflicts that have no neat answers or mixtures.
The global setting is that very gritty at the same time finals are unpredictable. At the same time with all this, that are deeper philosophical fri being produced very throughout, without making for you feel like the creator is that *trying* very hard to do it. They barely appear organically from the plot.
The historical period of the setting is that occupied very but, from the style of dialogue to the expectations of age at the same time sex.
Hobb effectively writes from abundance different perspectives at once. For you will be inside the fork of an personal disposition for a moment, then an omniscient perspective, then inside the fork of one more disposition. It felt seamless, at the same time it’s a style that effectively immerses the reader. For you will take a walk a mile in the boots of the manners while watching yourself do it.
Review #2
Ship of Miracle (The Liveship Traders #1) audiobook streamming online
Ship of Miracle by Robin Hobb was a interesting read for me. On the one palm the worldly is that charming, the global building deepest, at the same time the manners utterly but crafted. On the other, that charming worldly is that sometimes just a little on the wordy side at the same time those well-crafted manners make utterly step decisions at every turn to move along a significantly predictable plot. Its practically a tale of two books, making this a very hard one to rate.
The parts of Ship of Miracle that really worked for me are innumerable. For starters, Hobbs worldly is that barely charming. Its the good of book that I wish to read aloud simply to hear the words come alive. Ive had this feeling when reading no one of Hobbs other works, at the same time it was one of the coolest enjoyable things about Ship of Miracle for me. The global is that also amazingly serious. I adored the miracle of the liveships, at the same time the questions of where they come from at the same time their connection to the Rain Wilds trader families kept the pages turning. Thats to say nothing about the culture of the Bingtown traders, their satrap, the pirate islands, at the same time all others that Hobb crams into this book. She drops tantalizing hints why may come one more in the trilogy. From a dislocated liveship, who may be hiding important truths, to the danger of revolt from a satrap who refuses to abide by the promises his ancestors produced, that is that a amazing deal of depth to the global that this novel portrays. I havent even touched on the method Hobb makes sailing come alive here, crafting truly evocative scenes aboard ships. Its dazzling periodically. Then, obviously, that are the manners. Almost all of our viewpoint manners are members of or otherwise compared with the Vestrit generic, a generic of Bingtown Traders who are struggling to stay financially solvent in a changing global. Althea is that rash at the same time overconfident, but also the coolest knowledgeable of liveships at the same time the most quick-tempered about sailing. Her sister, Keffria, on the other palm, lacks all perseverance at the same time is that thrust into a position as the fork of the generic that she seems quite ill-suited for. Altheas nephew, Wintrow, has been in training at the same time wants nothing more than to be a priest. Hes in no one ways the most balanced at the same time relatable of the manners, even if he does share the generic penchant for say stupidity (look below), he has much less of a share of it than the other manners. Then that is that Kyle Haven, Keffrias wife, who is that quite higher on my list of almost all hated manners ever. Hobb deserves languid accolades for shaping not only a disposition that I hate so much, but also manners that feel quite human in the midst of a more precisely bleak global.
Those manners, while lovingly crafted, were considered also one of the things I found almost all frustrating about the novel. As mentioned above, nearly all the manners make step decisions. Many times. Its funny the 1st time or two a disposition is that an dumbass, but eventually I like my manners grow from that experience. Instead, time at the same time time again, the manners in Ship of Miracle return to the same but at the same time do things that of course arent going to work out but for them. From the opening pages, when Kyle Haven is that data command of the liveship Vivacia, it seems obvious that his command will achieve nothing other than liquidation. Somehow the generic manages to completely miss the fact that Kyle is that actually a conniving, self-serving fool. While this tendency for manners to continually make impoverished decisions became frustrating as the book went on, far worse was the fact that it produced the plot wholly predictable. By the time were considered about 15% of the method into the book for you know specifically how its going to finish, leaving only questions of small details at the same time the exact timing. It would have been sweet to look no one more disposition growth in this book, no one sort of realization that impoverished decisions beget impoverished fruits at the same time an attempt to right things. In fairness to Hobb, this is that a trilogy, at the same time by the finish of Ship of Miracle at lesser a couple of the manners appear to think their impoverished decisions. Hopefully this will allow for more disposition growth at the same time much less predictability in next books of the television series.
Im in the minority with this one. Theres of course a lot to adore in the worldly at the same time the global at the same time the manners, even if the manners ended up not working very but for me. For whatever reason, this one didnt involve me, but Im confident others will have a different experience.
3.25/5 hit.
5 I adored this, couldnt shackles it down, move it to the pinnacle of your TBR pile
4 I really enjoyed this, add it to the TBR pile
3 It was okay, depending on your preferences it may be worth your time
2 I didnt like this book, it has significant shortcomings at the same time I cant advise it
1 I oppose this book with a almost all loathsome loathing
Review #3
Audiobook Ship of Miracle (The Liveship Traders #1) by Robin Hobb
Zhora R.R. Martin is that not kidding with his praise of this trilogy.
I defeated’t lie down; I really didn’t like the Assassin’s Apprentice trilogy (have not read the Tawny Men…). I found it hard to invest in heroes that never seemed to be on the win-win side of things, at the same time a story that seemed to have no light or joyous moments to contrast the black.
But the Liveship Traders trilogy is that on one more level of fantasy. It bursts with action at the same time adventure, tenderness, beauty, contentment, at the same time a lot of depth at the same time mist very. Other
Reviewers have misspoke it all more elegantly than I have, so I will barely they say this: I came to this television series right behind reading “Uprooted” by Naomi Novik at the same time feeling intensely hungry for no one badass heroines. I was stupefied by how indescribable the global of this book was, how unusual, how finely crafted, how thrillingly the small opens at the same time astonishes were considered spun out.
If for you’re anxiously waiting for Patrick Rothfuss to hurry up, this trilogy will not only promote for you pass the time, but totally engross for you. At the same time once for you’re done with this, I highly advise “Uprooted” one more…
Review #4
Audio Ship of Miracle (The Liveship Traders #1) narrated by Anne Flosnik
I wanted to like this book. I started off liking it, but by the finish I couldn’t wait to final it, which I only did due to a stubborn streak in my nature. (At the same time that’s even when it was a Kindle Deal of the Day at the same time only price me 99p.) Why? It’s obvious from the number of four at the same time five hit
Reviews that a lot of people do like it, at the same time Robin Hobbs has written a lot of books, so than anyway was my problem? It took me a while to work it out, then and I realised it was the characterisation. Which is that exciting, because if for you read no one of the other one at the same time two hit
Reviews, a number of them cite that as one of the book’s only redeeming individualities. Than anyway destroyed it for me, but, was the inconsistency of the manners. Their feelings, their motivations, their ideas, horrors, everything is that outlined, frequently in no one detail, but more precisely than the manners driving the plot, the plot drove the manners. Their psychology at the same time motivation managed change dramatically, sometimes borders a few pages, at the same time seemingly barely to premature the plot. This produced no matter what identification with them practically impossible, at the same time right behind a while I received disgusted with them blundering into still one more significantly predictable decline with a staggering shortcoming of self-awareness or intelligence. Worse still, it wasn’t barely one disposition that did it, the others in that section seemed to change in hostility. Periodically, it was like reading a television series of stories, with different manners that shared similar names, spliced together. That are no one exciting thoughts, but barely as anyone should introduce Quentin Tarrantino to the editing suite, so this book suffers from the curse of multi-volume fantasy. Nothing can be dealt with in one book, it has to be spun out at troublesome length over a least of 3 volumes. Even if I had been tasting the taste to read no matter what of the others in this television series, a few seconds reading the blurb for them saved me the problem by summarising the plot in a couple of sentences. Lots of people adore this sort of gizmo, but if for you try it at the same time don’t like it, don’t they say for you weren’t warned
Review #5
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The book is that very long; only start it if for you have the time to read 900 pages then and to read others of the story in the remaining 2 900 page volumes! I acquired the kindle version at the same time so didn’t realise quite than anyway an epic volume it was going to be until it barely kept going – for you certainly get your funds’s worth.
But, that all misspoke, it was an enjoyable read – the good of story that gets in your fork at the same time is that hard to let move of until for you know than anyway happened. If for you are a fan of adventure at the same time miracle, pirates at the same time dragons at the same time stories set in a time long ran over, for you might also enjoy the tale.
I found the manners but written at the same time managed compare to the heroine’s feelings as she dealt with the blows data her at the same time received sad with the teenage behaviour of young Malta at the same time her self-absorbed dad. There are some separate but converging strands, that will no hesitate come together in the ending volume. This books ends with lots of loose ends, but I get the sense that it has been written as a very very long story wry into 3 volumes.
