[ SECRET POST #3209 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3209 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Let's just get this straight. You're not wrong.

They're terrible books, for many reasons including the ones in your secret. Halfway through the third book, I was hoping I'd get struck on the head and suddenly become illiterate so I could stop reading them, they're that bad.

You're not missing anything.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure that I've ever felt more like I was reading a completely separate book from the one the person who recommended it described than with Hobb.

But people love her writing, including people whose taste I respect. Just one of those things.

[solticisekf]

Well, nothing can make you like a book so I'd say it's a lost cause. I'm surprised you've made it to the ending.

Fitz's cool. When the action is from a character's POV I find it impossible to dislike the character unless they're unbelievable or cruel. Slashy undertones didn't hurt the book either.

I like to search for negative reviews for popular things I was unimpressed with and rejoice in shared negativity.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry they didn't work out for you, OP. I like them, but agree that the ending is kind of underwhelming.

[(Anonymous)]

Those were the only fantasy books I had for a while outside of Golden Compass and Harry Potter, so I read all of them twice (outside of the new new ones). I still like them and I'll always have a nostalgia for them. I don't care that much about fantasy anymore (back covers make it hard not to think of them as the same stories with different names and locations) so I guess they'll be "my" fantasy book series.

[caerbannog]

I really enjoyed them, came back to re-read them and really didn't enjoy it second time around. It was weird.

[ariakas]

Yeah, honestly, I found Fitz to be one of the least likable protagonists in fantasy. The only reason I struggled through the first trilogy was because they're the favourite books of all time of one of my closest friends.

That said, he gets better as the series progress. He's much more tolerable in the second trilogy, and downright sympathetic in the third.

[anarchicq]

My friend begged me to read them. I'm about halfway through the first one, switching between e-book and audiobook.

I am SO BORED.

[(Anonymous)]

I just recently recc'd this series to my cousin. Secret? I didn't really enjoy Fitz either. Hated the character, but the particular fantasy tropes are satisfying to me.

[(Anonymous)]

I really liked Fitz. Considering all the shit he endured as an orphaned little kid, and thinking his foster father had murdered his bonded pack mate, I didn't think he grew up so poorly. He wasn't treated very kindly. Ever. But he still had a good heart despite. I don't think he recognized Molly's agency very well, but then she communicated exactly jack and shit to him back, so they were both guilty. The Fool treated Fitz like a tool. So did a lot of others. I thought Hobb did a good job of showing how very little a bastard's life was worth if Fitz didn't stay under the old king's thumb. Fitz didn't have a lot of agency of his own and did his best to move under the weight of those constraints.

[ketita]

I DID like the series quite a bit, and I even reread it a few months ago and still enjoyed it, for all its flaws.
Then again, there are plenty of wildly popular fantasy series that I don't understand the hype about - just come talk to me about Name of the Wind, and I will give you a huge rant.
I can see how you wouldn't like Fitz, though I personally found him more unhappy and stunted than anything else. Nobody was really his friend or in his quarter, and while he botched things with Molly, I can definitely see why he behaved the way he did. At the end of the day, Fitz's problem is that he doesn't actually trust anybody at all - and I don't think people in his life gave him much of a reason to.

[(Anonymous)]

You know, I'm not sure we're supposed to like Fitz as a whole... he's got good and bad in him, and sometimes he really fucks it up. But I like that about the character, even if I wouldn't want to be his friend. I like how flawed and human Fitz is, and how much Hobb makes me feel about his situation even if I've got mixed feelings about him.