
Ship of Magic
The Liveship Traders, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Anne Flosnik
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By:
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Robin Hobb
About this listen
From the author of the classic Farseer trilogy, Ship of Magic is the first part of the Liveship Traders. Set in a land bordering the Six Duchies, Robin Hobb begins her epic of pirates, talking ships, magic, sea serpents, slave revolts, dashing heroes and bloody battles.
Wizardwood, a sentient wood. The most precious commodity in the world. Like many legendary wares, it comes only from the Rain River Wilds.
But how can one trade with the Rain Wilders, when only a liveship, fashioned from wizardwood, can negotiate the perilous waters of the Rain River? Rare and valuable, a liveship will quicken only when three members, from successive generations, have died on board. The liveship Vivacia is about to undergo her quickening, as Althea Vestrit’s father is carried on deck in his death-throes. Althea waits for the ship that she loves more than anything else in the world to awaken. Only to discover that the Vivacia has been signed away in her father’s will to her brutal brother-in-law, Kyle Haven. . .
Others plot to win, or steal, a liveship. The Paragon, known by many as the Pariah, went mad, turned turtle and drowned his crew. Now he lies, blind, lonely and broken on a deserted beach. But greedy men have designs to restore him, to sail the waters of the Rain Wild River once more.
©2012 Robin Hobb (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers LimitedCritic reviews
"Hobb is one of the great modern fantasy writers…what makes her novels as addictive as morphine is not just their imaginative brilliance but the way her characters are compromised and manipulated by politics." (The Times)
"Hobb is a remarkable storyteller." (Guardian)
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There’s only one drawback, the narration, is annoying because at the end many sentences the reader draws out the words particularly on the word her, which becomes herrrr, or therrre, I wish they’d re-record this series with a different narratorrrr!
Brilliant story, annoying narration
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A fantastic book, poorly performed
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Amazing
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Story great, narration average
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fantastically descriptive characters
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The book itself is really entertaining with good characters that I like to hear about.
They could however probably cut Malta's part as she is truly the most annoying character.
The narrator gets better and the book is joyful
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However I find the narration excruciating - listen to a sample before you buy it
Magic?
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performance
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it's a very hard listen
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