“Love isn’t just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you.

I’m talking about enduring the boredom, and the messines, and the inconvienience of doing what is right.” I don’t mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. True courage is facing life without flinching. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. “Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. I can’t say much more about the second book in a series without spoiling anything, so I’m going to share my favorite quotes and then the rest of the post will be my spoilery thoughts which I wrote down while reading the book. I can tell they are going to stick with me, even the ones that made me want to tear my own hair out. Then you also have the characters who are both loveable and frustrating but all feel very real.

There is a lot of social commentary involved that I had a great time analyzing, but it also really adds to the depth of the novel. The plot started to take shape, so even if the book is still slow, it gave the story more of a direction. Each volume in this series is a major undertaking, but those who enjoy original, epic fantasy, characters who grow and change believably, and fine writing will not want to miss The Liveship Traders.The second book in the Liveship Traders trilogy is a step up from the first one. Meanwhile, the sea serpents who follow sailing ships struggle to remember their history and return to their place of transformation. Malta, Althea's niece, seeks help from her suitor, the Rain Wild Trader Reyn, whose family is the Vestritt's major creditor.

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. Althea Vestritt, in training to become Vivacia's captain, arrives home to discover her beloved ship lost. 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. The Vestritt family's liveship, Vivacia, has been taken by Kennit, an ambitious pirate. Many unresolved questions from Ship of Magic are answered in this tale of sea serpents and dragons living ships made of wizardwood the Bingtown Trader families who sail the ships and their disfigured cousins, the Rain Wild Traders, who build them. Robin Hobb returns to the sea with Mad Ship, the second book in a projected trilogy set in the same world as her famed Farseer series.

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