The characterizations are consistently superb, and animates everything with love for and knowledge of the sea. But the fate of the ship-and the Vestrits-may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider: the ruthless buccaneer captain Kennit, who plans to seize power over the Pirate Isles by capturing a liveship and bending it to his will. For Althea’s young nephew, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard the ship, the Vivacia is a life sentence. foolishly proud to accept the Satrap's offer to bed him instead of the Chalcedean. Now the fortunes of one of Bingtown’s oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia.įor Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy. Martinīingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships-rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. “Even better than the Farseer Trilogy-I didn’t think that was possible.”-George R. The first novel in Robin Hobb’s beloved Liveship Traders Trilogy
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