Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb, 685 pages
“Bingtown 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. Now the fortunes of one of Bingtown's
oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea
Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy. For Althea's young nephew, wrenched
from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard the ship, the Vivacia is
a life sentence. 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.”
I really enjoyed this. There are
several different aspects to this story, told from several different points of
view, but they are all fascinating. This
was hard to put down. I dreaded and
longed for the end. A great choice for
fantasy lovers.
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