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The Liveship Traders, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Anne Flosnik
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Written by:
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Robin Hobb
About this listen
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. 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 unjustly denied her---a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim.
For Althea's young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard ship, Vivacia is a life sentence. But the fate of the Vestrit family---and the ship---may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles...and the first step of his plan requires him to capture his own liveship and bend it to his will.
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Decent
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Robin Hobb delivers!
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it grew on me
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took a while, but pretty good
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Complex characters.
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Started slow but was worth it in the end.
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There are a lot more characters than in the Farseer trilogy, to a point that it's hard to be invested in all their storylines, especially before things start picking up in the second half. Really enjoyed when we start getting Malta's perspective (maybe 2/3rds in) since it's so different from all the others. Looking forward to the variety I can expect in books 2 and 3 now that all the characters have been well-established in this one.
Much slower than Farseer Trilogy
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love the story but not the narrator
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The narrator is a little too slow for me, so I sped it up to 1.15 and then it was perfect for me!
Slow start, gets way better!!
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Amazing Story, Not-so-great narrator
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