Fool's Fate

Finished reading: Fool’s Fate by Robin Hobb 📚

Cried for the last 400 pages. What a book. What an ending. Intensive feelings as these is what books can give. More so than movies. I know these characters. They are my friends.

I joined their highs and felt their lows. In the end I didn't find a good spot to put the book down and go to sleep. So I read for 5hours into the night and only stopped when I was finished. It was 00:30 and I didn't regret it, even though I had to get up 5 hours later.

By the end of the Farseer trilogy, I had come to love the Fool. That made this trilogy acutely painful to read. As the final book in the series (I read this before the Fitz and the Fool trilogy was announced), I knew I'd soon have to say good-bye.

The second book left me in a constant state of anger, so in a way the stress and despair I felt reading this book was a relief. I dreaded the titular "Fool's Fate", but it (and the aftermath) was handled well enough that it didn't rip away my suspension of disbelief.

The last two chapters were not the ending I hoped for, but was still better than the Farseer trilogy's.