A civilised and warlike nation, Gernia, has taken to expanding its boundaries inland as a result of its coastal lands being lost to a neighbour's vastly superior naval force.
It was very interesting, intricate and well thought out. I love Robin Hobb's writing, definitely, and the Forest Mage is full of beautiful descriptive language that really makes you see the scenes, and you really understand Nevare...but the thing is, I guess I am used to fantasy where the hero accepts the strange magic dumped into his life sooner. With unique characters and a engrossing storyline it's a fascinating tale. Nevare is forced to enlist at a military spot at the far end of the King's Road, so close to the forest of the Specks who spread the disease.
Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. I really liked the concept (even if it's not a totally novel one). Even the magic ship books were ten times better than this series. Yes there have been other books about a technology driven culture driving out native peoples who they perceive to be less civilized but that doesn't mean that nobody should ever write a book like that again; there are allowed to be multiple books on the same topic and there are allowed to be similar characters across different series by the same author.
Shaman's Crossing (The Soldier Son Trilogy) › Customer reviews; Customer reviews. I can't explain how frustrating and powerless you feel as the reader, but how entertaining and interesting the story is! Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Instead 75% of the series is rehashing the same thoughts and actions by the protagonist: "I should definitely do this. He is such a passive player, and he is to blame for.
I believe that a trait only expressed by the best authors. I was really between three and four stars on this series. For me, the academy just did not fit well with the first chapters involving the young sons trials in the hands of the landsman. Surfeit of Cliché: "The Soldier Son Trilogy" by Robin Hobb (Original Review, 2012) Hobb seems to have declined over the years. Nothing really happened. There's a problem loading this menu at the moment. To see what your friends thought of this book, I edged towards four stars for this series because it confounded my expectations of the fantasy genre at almost every turn.
I kept picturing early 19th century, maybe British Isles or Australia. Looking forward to the next two in the trilogy. I would have liked to know what happened to the Midlands with the discovery of gold and the Plains people without their Spindle. I highlighted so many passages where she made a point about how people react in certain situations, because they were just spot on.
I kept waiting for it to get better but alas it never did. very different to her Fitz and the Fool books. But there’s no gory violence nor is warfare the main thread on which the story is crafted. Start by marking “The Soldier Son Trilogy Bundle” as Want to Read: Error rating book. In this book you start learning more about other people who are not what they seemed to be.
You will also, as always with her works, find a loving, yet harsh mirror held up to you to show you how today's society fails and how easy it could be to succeed if only we can get out of our own way. Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2019. Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2020. Also, a friend had dinged it because she did not like the parallels to the "old west" and the subjugation of native peoples by a stronger, technology-driven culture. I find I’m writing this review for TDN because of the shamanic and animist principles that underly the story.
They have an advantage most other Plainspeople lack: powerful magic, with an apparent consciousness of its very own, determined to protect the Speck people through the manipulation of causality itself. But it's worse. I can put up with this in her other series as things turn out right in the end and the suffering of the characters has meaning and leads to something worthwhile.
Robin Hobb is already one of my favourite authors, and I’ve read her Farseer trilogy of trilogies many times.
A 3 star means that I've ignored friends to finish it and my sink is full of dirty dishes. I love Robin Hobb and I've read all of her Farseer-related works, but this series is just painful to read. If you're interested in ecology or indigenous rights or three books of excellent prose, settle in.
But it's worse. Stories about the military training isn't a subject I'm intrigued with to start with, and from the short synopses I've read, just didn't seem as deep and juicy as Robin Hobb's other stories.
I liked the books because it gives an insight into a somewhat negatively portrayed protagonist. The politics between the Old and New nobility, the pressures on the Speck people, the misjudgement of each other. Review: The Soldier Son Trilogy The conflict between nature and the progression of mankind is one that is often explored in fiction. What? It was a chore to get through them all. We follow his childhood, his training to be a soldier and his exploitation and abuse by a shaman of the displaced plains people along with his infection by the forest magic of the next native people to fall before the Kingdom, the Specks (dappled forest dwellers). Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. This page works best with JavaScript. I read all the Fitz books and everything related to them so when I saw this trilogy it was a no brainer. I know it is not everyone's cup of tea much of this book plots thru the reader's own mind which can be off putting to some readers. In this series the suffering is irrelevant to the story and accomplishes nothing, which leaves the reader feeling hollow and drained with no payoff. And yet, the one thing that frustrated me about the whole series was that I felt the ultimate solution was quite obvious. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Shaman's Crossing (Soldier Son Trilogy) at Amazon.com. In a sense, this is a greek tragedy because everything goes wrong.
I also tend to dislike writing where the heroes are helpless, tortured or at the mercy of outside forces.
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2020. Yet... one tribe in parti. Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features.
I found the endless soul searching of the main character depressing and the story was not moved on . It just isn’t enough to drag it out of the mire that the suffering of the characters and their essential irrelevance creates.
It has been only one or two generations since the Plainsmen have been beaten into submission, and racial and cultural tensions simmer underneath the thin veneer of civilization. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. I don't know if I've disliked a series more.
A civilised and warlike nation, Gernia, has taken to expanding its boundaries inland as a result of its coastal lands being lost to a neighbour's vastly superior naval force.
It was very interesting, intricate and well thought out. I love Robin Hobb's writing, definitely, and the Forest Mage is full of beautiful descriptive language that really makes you see the scenes, and you really understand Nevare...but the thing is, I guess I am used to fantasy where the hero accepts the strange magic dumped into his life sooner. With unique characters and a engrossing storyline it's a fascinating tale. Nevare is forced to enlist at a military spot at the far end of the King's Road, so close to the forest of the Specks who spread the disease.
Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. I really liked the concept (even if it's not a totally novel one). Even the magic ship books were ten times better than this series. Yes there have been other books about a technology driven culture driving out native peoples who they perceive to be less civilized but that doesn't mean that nobody should ever write a book like that again; there are allowed to be multiple books on the same topic and there are allowed to be similar characters across different series by the same author.
Shaman's Crossing (The Soldier Son Trilogy) › Customer reviews; Customer reviews. I can't explain how frustrating and powerless you feel as the reader, but how entertaining and interesting the story is! Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Instead 75% of the series is rehashing the same thoughts and actions by the protagonist: "I should definitely do this. He is such a passive player, and he is to blame for.
I believe that a trait only expressed by the best authors. I was really between three and four stars on this series. For me, the academy just did not fit well with the first chapters involving the young sons trials in the hands of the landsman. Surfeit of Cliché: "The Soldier Son Trilogy" by Robin Hobb (Original Review, 2012) Hobb seems to have declined over the years. Nothing really happened. There's a problem loading this menu at the moment. To see what your friends thought of this book, I edged towards four stars for this series because it confounded my expectations of the fantasy genre at almost every turn.
I kept picturing early 19th century, maybe British Isles or Australia. Looking forward to the next two in the trilogy. I would have liked to know what happened to the Midlands with the discovery of gold and the Plains people without their Spindle. I highlighted so many passages where she made a point about how people react in certain situations, because they were just spot on.
I kept waiting for it to get better but alas it never did. very different to her Fitz and the Fool books. But there’s no gory violence nor is warfare the main thread on which the story is crafted. Start by marking “The Soldier Son Trilogy Bundle” as Want to Read: Error rating book. In this book you start learning more about other people who are not what they seemed to be.
You will also, as always with her works, find a loving, yet harsh mirror held up to you to show you how today's society fails and how easy it could be to succeed if only we can get out of our own way. Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2019. Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2020. Also, a friend had dinged it because she did not like the parallels to the "old west" and the subjugation of native peoples by a stronger, technology-driven culture. I find I’m writing this review for TDN because of the shamanic and animist principles that underly the story.
They have an advantage most other Plainspeople lack: powerful magic, with an apparent consciousness of its very own, determined to protect the Speck people through the manipulation of causality itself. But it's worse. I can put up with this in her other series as things turn out right in the end and the suffering of the characters has meaning and leads to something worthwhile.
Robin Hobb is already one of my favourite authors, and I’ve read her Farseer trilogy of trilogies many times.
A 3 star means that I've ignored friends to finish it and my sink is full of dirty dishes. I love Robin Hobb and I've read all of her Farseer-related works, but this series is just painful to read. If you're interested in ecology or indigenous rights or three books of excellent prose, settle in.
But it's worse. Stories about the military training isn't a subject I'm intrigued with to start with, and from the short synopses I've read, just didn't seem as deep and juicy as Robin Hobb's other stories.
I liked the books because it gives an insight into a somewhat negatively portrayed protagonist. The politics between the Old and New nobility, the pressures on the Speck people, the misjudgement of each other. Review: The Soldier Son Trilogy The conflict between nature and the progression of mankind is one that is often explored in fiction. What? It was a chore to get through them all. We follow his childhood, his training to be a soldier and his exploitation and abuse by a shaman of the displaced plains people along with his infection by the forest magic of the next native people to fall before the Kingdom, the Specks (dappled forest dwellers). Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. This page works best with JavaScript. I read all the Fitz books and everything related to them so when I saw this trilogy it was a no brainer. I know it is not everyone's cup of tea much of this book plots thru the reader's own mind which can be off putting to some readers. In this series the suffering is irrelevant to the story and accomplishes nothing, which leaves the reader feeling hollow and drained with no payoff. And yet, the one thing that frustrated me about the whole series was that I felt the ultimate solution was quite obvious. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Shaman's Crossing (Soldier Son Trilogy) at Amazon.com. In a sense, this is a greek tragedy because everything goes wrong.
I also tend to dislike writing where the heroes are helpless, tortured or at the mercy of outside forces.
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2020. Yet... one tribe in parti. Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features.
I found the endless soul searching of the main character depressing and the story was not moved on . It just isn’t enough to drag it out of the mire that the suffering of the characters and their essential irrelevance creates.
It has been only one or two generations since the Plainsmen have been beaten into submission, and racial and cultural tensions simmer underneath the thin veneer of civilization. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. I don't know if I've disliked a series more.
It made more sense to think of them as identical twins separated in childhood and raised by warring cultures. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 August 2017, very different to her Fitz and the Fool books. I was frustrated mo.
If a book is so-so, it ends up under the bed somewhere, or maybe under a stinky judo bag in the back of the van. This series is wildly Robin Hobb - if you are a true fan, you will understand. Robin just chuckled and pulled The Soldiers Son out of the aether! Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 June 2020. Not anywhere near the standard of the Fitz books, but Hobb's skill with narrative and imagery means even her weaker books are rare gems, Robin Hobb is an immensely satisfying author. It's a good book that survives the reading process with me. Now I feel guilty. ( Log Out / Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2018.
The characters weren't very engaging.
Is the saying "Fear Thy Self" really true? I don't know if this trilogy would be considered my favorite of Ms. Hobb's, but it certainly is readable. I'm also kinda disappointed that the story is set in an entirely new world when I'm already so immersed in her Realm of Underlings universe. I'll persist since I still haven't found new books I want to read and I'm not in the mood for rereading old "great books" although I plan to someday now that I hope I've got more wisdom with maturity to actually understand some of those books that went over my head back in school.
A civilised and warlike nation, Gernia, has taken to expanding its boundaries inland as a result of its coastal lands being lost to a neighbour's vastly superior naval force.
It was very interesting, intricate and well thought out. I love Robin Hobb's writing, definitely, and the Forest Mage is full of beautiful descriptive language that really makes you see the scenes, and you really understand Nevare...but the thing is, I guess I am used to fantasy where the hero accepts the strange magic dumped into his life sooner. With unique characters and a engrossing storyline it's a fascinating tale. Nevare is forced to enlist at a military spot at the far end of the King's Road, so close to the forest of the Specks who spread the disease.
Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. I really liked the concept (even if it's not a totally novel one). Even the magic ship books were ten times better than this series. Yes there have been other books about a technology driven culture driving out native peoples who they perceive to be less civilized but that doesn't mean that nobody should ever write a book like that again; there are allowed to be multiple books on the same topic and there are allowed to be similar characters across different series by the same author.
Shaman's Crossing (The Soldier Son Trilogy) › Customer reviews; Customer reviews. I can't explain how frustrating and powerless you feel as the reader, but how entertaining and interesting the story is! Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Instead 75% of the series is rehashing the same thoughts and actions by the protagonist: "I should definitely do this. He is such a passive player, and he is to blame for.
I believe that a trait only expressed by the best authors. I was really between three and four stars on this series. For me, the academy just did not fit well with the first chapters involving the young sons trials in the hands of the landsman. Surfeit of Cliché: "The Soldier Son Trilogy" by Robin Hobb (Original Review, 2012) Hobb seems to have declined over the years. Nothing really happened. There's a problem loading this menu at the moment. To see what your friends thought of this book, I edged towards four stars for this series because it confounded my expectations of the fantasy genre at almost every turn.
I kept picturing early 19th century, maybe British Isles or Australia. Looking forward to the next two in the trilogy. I would have liked to know what happened to the Midlands with the discovery of gold and the Plains people without their Spindle. I highlighted so many passages where she made a point about how people react in certain situations, because they were just spot on.
I kept waiting for it to get better but alas it never did. very different to her Fitz and the Fool books. But there’s no gory violence nor is warfare the main thread on which the story is crafted. Start by marking “The Soldier Son Trilogy Bundle” as Want to Read: Error rating book. In this book you start learning more about other people who are not what they seemed to be.
You will also, as always with her works, find a loving, yet harsh mirror held up to you to show you how today's society fails and how easy it could be to succeed if only we can get out of our own way. Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2019. Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2020. Also, a friend had dinged it because she did not like the parallels to the "old west" and the subjugation of native peoples by a stronger, technology-driven culture. I find I’m writing this review for TDN because of the shamanic and animist principles that underly the story.
They have an advantage most other Plainspeople lack: powerful magic, with an apparent consciousness of its very own, determined to protect the Speck people through the manipulation of causality itself. But it's worse. I can put up with this in her other series as things turn out right in the end and the suffering of the characters has meaning and leads to something worthwhile.
Robin Hobb is already one of my favourite authors, and I’ve read her Farseer trilogy of trilogies many times.
A 3 star means that I've ignored friends to finish it and my sink is full of dirty dishes. I love Robin Hobb and I've read all of her Farseer-related works, but this series is just painful to read. If you're interested in ecology or indigenous rights or three books of excellent prose, settle in.
But it's worse. Stories about the military training isn't a subject I'm intrigued with to start with, and from the short synopses I've read, just didn't seem as deep and juicy as Robin Hobb's other stories.
I liked the books because it gives an insight into a somewhat negatively portrayed protagonist. The politics between the Old and New nobility, the pressures on the Speck people, the misjudgement of each other. Review: The Soldier Son Trilogy The conflict between nature and the progression of mankind is one that is often explored in fiction. What? It was a chore to get through them all. We follow his childhood, his training to be a soldier and his exploitation and abuse by a shaman of the displaced plains people along with his infection by the forest magic of the next native people to fall before the Kingdom, the Specks (dappled forest dwellers). Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. This page works best with JavaScript. I read all the Fitz books and everything related to them so when I saw this trilogy it was a no brainer. I know it is not everyone's cup of tea much of this book plots thru the reader's own mind which can be off putting to some readers. In this series the suffering is irrelevant to the story and accomplishes nothing, which leaves the reader feeling hollow and drained with no payoff. And yet, the one thing that frustrated me about the whole series was that I felt the ultimate solution was quite obvious. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Shaman's Crossing (Soldier Son Trilogy) at Amazon.com. In a sense, this is a greek tragedy because everything goes wrong.
I also tend to dislike writing where the heroes are helpless, tortured or at the mercy of outside forces.
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2020. Yet... one tribe in parti. Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features.
I found the endless soul searching of the main character depressing and the story was not moved on . It just isn’t enough to drag it out of the mire that the suffering of the characters and their essential irrelevance creates.
It has been only one or two generations since the Plainsmen have been beaten into submission, and racial and cultural tensions simmer underneath the thin veneer of civilization. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. I don't know if I've disliked a series more.