However, Vivacia has been captured by the pirate ‘King’ Kennit. She continues to reside in Tacoma, Washington, with frequent visits to the pocket farm in Roy. A collection of her shorter works as both Lindholm and Hobb is available in The Inheritance. Althea Vestrit has found a new home aboard the liveship Ophelia, but lives only to reclaim the Vivacia as her rightful inheritance. Other works as Robin Hobb include The Soldier Son trilogy and short stories published in various anthologies. The characterizations are consistently superb, and animates everything with love for and knowledge of the sea. The second volume in this superb trilogy from the author of The Farseer trilogy continues the dramatic tale of piracy, serpents, love, and magic. 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. 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 -now featuring a stunning new cover
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