435 pages
English language
Published Feb. 21, 1996
Assassin's Apprentice is a fantasy novel by American writer Robin Hobb, the first book in The Farseer Trilogy. It was Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden's first book under this pseudonym, and was published in 1995. The book was written under the working title Chivalry’s Bastard.The novel covers the early life of FitzChivalry, a royal bastard living in Buckkeep Castle as he begins his training as an assassin and successfully safeguards the throne from his over-ambitious uncle Regal, almost at the cost of his life. The stories of characters found in the Farseer Trilogy continue in the Tawny Man Trilogy and the Fitz and the Fool Trilogy. Other series, The Liveship Traders and The Rain Wild Chronicles, are set in the same world and in the same timeframe, with some crossover.
My brother threw this at me, saying I'd been reading too much nonfiction and needed to diversify. He was right.
Its the sort of book that takes a while to get going, but you need to set up all the pins before you knock them down. Honestly a fantastic read overall, a deeply mystifying magical political drama with characters you just can't help but relate to.
