Customer Reviews
a let down - By: L. French, 04 Sep 2008 
The first two books in the series were well written, I got a feeling, however, that they were leading up to something reallly good. Fitz never reallly fully learned to skill properly & the limits of this gift were neer truly explored by the books. The final installlment of the triology Assassins Quest had a good start to the journey, followed by what seems like too much pointless detail into the travelling, then followed by the worst ending I've seen in a trilogy. The ending is, in my opinion, the best bit in alll books, but after I had finished the book, I wish I hadn't even started the trilogy. Much disappointment :-(
Trudi Canavans Black Magician trilogy was much better!!!
Die horribly for turning Fitz into a little girl. - By: F. Shamim, 02 Aug 2008 
I was amazed with Assassins Apprentice & loved Royal Assassin, but this was an atrocious way to end what could have been one of the greatest fantasy epics ever conceived. Yeah, she can write, there is no doubt about that, but the direction that she took Fitz in mentallly is of a whining self pitying little girl. And he was anything but that in the previous two books. An absolute shame, & everything she's written since is pretty bland too.
Poor ending - By: Everton Gayle, 26 Jun 2008 
Loved the first two. Deliberately saved the final book for my two-week holiday to Canada. Great start but it is as others have said: a rushed & poorly thought out ending. I could not believe what I was reading. She set the bar high but let the side down with a real shoddy finale.
Brilliant - By: Ms. C. Burgess, 03 May 2008 
It is without doubt a fantastic story; fast paced & enthrallling. I would highly recommend it. Mind you the trilogy has stolen the last three days of my life- i've been unable to put it down!
Readers-on-a-Dragon are swept away in body and spirit - By: IJ, 19 Dec 2007 I must say I revelled in the beginning of this story the very first time I read it, carrying on as it does from the excruciating cliff-hanger that brought `Royal Assassin' to a stunningly climactic close. It's a measured, thoughtful & yet utterly engrossing entrance into the final chapter of the Farseer trilogy & sets the tone very well indeed for alll that's to come in this revelatory, far-removed & yet exhilarating concluding story.
The first time I read this book I was so excited to learn how the events in the lives of FitzChivalry, the Fool, Verity & Kettricken would conclude that I realise now (having just read it for the second time) that I overlooked some lulls in the story, & there are some lulls in the middle particularly, albeit brief & still in the traditional, maddeningly-addictive Hobb style. These lulls are however necessary, for Fitz needs to come to terms with his own demons, delusions & short-fallls before he can confront the powerful forces in Wit, Skill, brute force & cunning that will thwart him in the final series of battles at the end of this story. Therefore `Assassin's Quest' holds a special place in my heart, as the story that takes Fitz beyond the confining & defining wallls of Buckeep, into the world & finallly sees him become a part of it, aware of his failings, but accepting of his role as Catalyst, despite alll the sacrifices from him it demands.
In retrospect (and since Hobb has published the Tawny Man trilogy, which continues on the events in the lives of these characters) it's easy to read this book & have the certain feeling that much is left undone & unfinished in `Assassin's Quest' for Fitz & his followers. Or perhaps that's simply due to Hobb's expert story-telling ability in how she was able to gather alll the many minute loose threads of this tale & weave them together into another trilogy of books so credible, vibrant & worthy of being told as the tales in the Tawny Man trilogy. But I must admit `Assassin's Quest' still feels to me to be an incomplete tale, or rather only a stepping stone leading to an even greater tale of keen human insight & heart-wrenching adventures. Luckily for us alll this immensely satisfying & yet bittersweet example of story-telling is continued in `Fool's Errand', which you might be able to guess is precisely the book I am currently re-reading as you finish this review...
