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Robin Hobb’s Fool’s Errand is an engaging and immersive read in an expansive world that Hobbs has already created. The novel is the first book in the Tawny Man Series which picks up 15 years after the Liveship Traders and Farseer Trilogy. Some readers didn’t need the background information about Fitz or the political intrigue that was woven into his story. Since this is my first book with Fitz in it (and my first Robin Hobb book), I appreciated the background. It was a slow immersion but by the

The characterisation of Fitschivalry through the series is brilliant. The books are told from the first person entirely; thus the reader witnesses the change in his thoughts as he grows into a man. In this book, he has developed a new persona: Tom Badgerlock. This is set fifteen years after the Red Ship wars and King Verity’s reawakening of the Dragons. Tom Badgerlock is the person Fitschivalry has evolved into: the one he always wanted to be; he is the man with a simple life, a small farm, a f...

It was fascinating to see a master like Hobb move her characters through time to a new point in their lives. When we were last with Fitz, he was a deeply wounded young adult who was retreating into a life of solitude to lick his wounds and try to move forward with his beloved Nighteyes. As our story rejoins him, he is slowly getting drawn back into the the politics of the Six Duchies, and the titular Fool has a task for him. As is typical in a first book in a Hobb trilogy, there's a lot of set u...

A tale of a bond between humans and animals at its finest level.Fool’s Errand is the first book in the Tawny Man trilogy—the third out of five subseries within Hobb’s The Realm of the Elderlings gigantic series—and it is my favorite installment within the entire RotE so far. This is seriously a lovely, memorable, and poignant return to the world of Fitz, Nighteyes, and the Fool’s journey. Honestly, after the disappointment I had with the last installment of the Farseer trilogy, and after the gre...

„Fool?“„What?“„You are not Fool anymore. What do they call you these days?“„What does who call me when?“„I should not call you Fool anymore. What do you want me to call you?“„Ah, what do I want you to call me now? I see. An entirely different question. And if I tell you, you would call me by that name?“„In private only. And only if you wished me to.“„Ah... Oh, but I would.“„Then?“„The name my mother gave me, I give now to you, to call me by in private. Beloved.“„Fool! I’m serious!“„And you think...

I went into this story with zero expectation. My poor heart was still very tender after the beating it got in Assassin’s Quest. But then I saw everyone reading one or the other Fitz book and going ga ga over. I kept thinking, “did we read the same Fitz stories?” to find the answer I thought why not give another chance to Fitz, perhaps he did better in this. And oh boy, this book simply blew me away. All my complaints of Fitz being whinny and doing nothing went out of the wind. Ms. Hobb what did

I loved the beginning but then bullshit and don’t talk to me about it. Things and people could have died in peace in their shack. Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾

"History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took." - Spoilers from the first series will follow. Fool's Errand is set 15-years after the finale of Assassin's Quest. Once again we follow FitzChivalry Farseer - the assumed dead royal bastard. In song, he is acknowledged by many as being the Witted Bastard ghost that rose from the dead to aid his uncle Verity who was the rightful heir to the throne and he helped him raise the Elderlings a...

Again, Robin Hobb demonstrates that you don’t need to write grimdark to generate realism, high drama, or sinister undertones. Now I love my grimdark as much as Hannibal loves liver *phphpht*, but Hobb’s realism is expressed in believable characters, complex relationships, detailed worldbuilding...wait wait wait a minute now...what about blood and guts? Yes, there will be blood too, but the joojoo is not in the gore - the joojoo is in the sustained threat of violence - the joojoo is in the way th...

Much preferred to the first Fitz trilogy but maybe because the Fitz books are so well integrated into this. It also worked really well for me because I read the first trilogy nearly 20 years ago and so I have been away from the world of Buck keep as long as Fitz himself had!My only minor niggle is that the first third of the book was very slow and by the end of that section I was on the verge of getting restless for some action.Loved this book :)

This is book #1 in the Tawny Man series, which follows on from the events of the Farseer books and the Liveship books. This series relates a lot more to the characters from the initial Farseer books such as Fitz, the Fool and various other characters, both old and new, who are local to Bukkeep. We are told that the main character (first-person again) of Fitz is now 35, so it's about 15 years after the Farsser series.As we follow Fitz we don't actually know an awful lot about the life he's been l...

Fool's Errand (Realm of Elderlings #7,The Tawny Man #1)Fool's Errand is an incredibly well-written book that demonstrates just how much of a genius Hobb is. It is a slow book, at least to start with. But I enjoyed it. The mature topic covered-death and parenting-provide a lot to think about. Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow. Brilliant

This is more or less what I look like whenever FitzChivalry Farseer is involved:So many books later, and I’m still feeling überprotective of Fitz. I got furious with his neighbour when he attacked Fitz in the market place, I wanted to kick Starling out of the door (and none too gently), and I was even too angry to cry when the inevitable happened (view spoiler)[and Nighteyes dies. It was 500 pages in the making and still I was shocked (hide spoiler)].What Robin Hobb manages to do is quite amazi...

What an amazing journey this is turning out to be!In order to understand how happy I am after reading Fool's Errand, you have to be a fan of Fantasy. It could be Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, or insert your favorite here. Just think more books in the world you adore are available.I’m back with FitzChivalry Farseer and the Fool. What a team!The last time we saw FitzChivalry Farseer, he had saved the Six Duchies yet no one knows he did (well almost no one). For the last fi...

Do not you sense it? A crossroads, a vertex, a vortex. All paths change from here.This book made my cry. Multiple times.I don't often cry while reading books. I takes a lot. And I might blame it on pregnancy hormones except Hobb made me cry in her last two series Liveship Traders and Farseer Trilogy and when I read those I wasn't pregnant.But this book again has ruined me. In a good way.Robin Hobb is the type of author that slowly builds her story. She introduces her character and you live their...

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Fool's Errand is the first book in The Tawny Man Trilogy. Though it's book one it's actually a spin-off of Farseer Trilogy. The Tawny Man is the third book series in The Book of the Elderlings series. So no you cannot start from here, you have to start from Farseer Trilogy. Addictive and captivating. Grown-up Fitz is awesome. After reading the disappointment called Assassin's Quest I couldn't bring myself to continue this series, but the awesomeness of Liveship Traders changed that. ‘When you

No. DAMMIT. 😰Starting the year with a heartbreak. Stellar start.

I am broken. My love for Fitz and the Fool is strong as ever, but my heart is broken from the events of this book. I didn't cry, but I screamed.Also, Fitz and the Fool... I ship it. So damn hard!