Fool’s Fate (The Tawny Man Trilogy, Book 3): book three of the tawny man trilogy: 3/3

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Dutiful is growing up to be a good king, he's so different from the other Farseers like Chade who is manipulative and old school. Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Tempers are running high and Dutiful puts Fitz to the task of helping Thick who in turn asks Nettle for help.

Fool's Fate is a great conclusion to The Tawny Man Trilogy, after the disappointment that was Assassin's Quest I was scared this will be another even though Liveship Traders was amazing. It was only when we dropped anchor in the bay and our small boats prepared to ferry us and our supplies to shore that he moved. The Fool tells Fitz he is going back to his school with the Black Man, although Fitz wants to bring him back to Buckkeep. As they set up the explosives, Fitz sends Dutiful back to be with Burrich and then is suddenly in contact with Icefire and learns his story.The Narcheska has set the prince an unfathomable task: to behead a dragon trapped in ice on the isle of Aslevjal. I was enjoying the quiet first half with Hobb's brilliant slice-of-life style that still always manages to feel tense and interesting and that also allowed for some fascinating new worldbuilding for the series. Making a plan that would leave Fool in Six Duchies to prevent that fate that Fool has foreseen for himself.

Names like Chade, Molly, Fitz, Althea, and Burrich – these are not names that you will come across every day but are names of people that you could conceivably meet in the “real” world. I didn’t expect this to become one of the very few 6/5 stars books on my personal shelves, but I did expect this to deserved a full 5 stars rating. However, I was sorely disappointed (possibly depressed) with how the story closed between Fitz and Beloved.

He finds a room with a map of the Skill Stones and then Skill Stones and takes himself and the Fool to the stone quarry where the Elderling dragons sleep.