Assassin’s Apprentice

· The Farseer Trilogy Book 1 · HarperCollins · Narrated by Paul Boehmer
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The first volume in Robin Hobb’s internationally bestselling Farseer series.

In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma.

Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chivalry Farseer, is a royal bastard cast out into the world, friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals – the old art known as the Wit – gives him solace and companionship. But the Wit, if used too often, is a perilous magic, and one abhorred by the nobility.

So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways and embrace a new life of weaponry, scribing, courtly manners; and how to kill a man secretly, as he trains to become a royal assassin.

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4.7
21 reviews
Sarah Gadd
July 4, 2022
Great story...weird narration. Never heard anyone pronounce "sausage" that way. It will haunt me.
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Alvaro Sainz
February 11, 2024
El primer libro que leo (escucho) de Robin Hobb. Me ha encantado todo. Muhísimas ganas de continuar la historia.
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Andreas Begemann
November 26, 2023
Read the books many times, and this audiobook version of it is great.
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About the author

Robin Hobb is one of the world’s finest writers of epic fiction.She was born in California in 1952 but raised in Alaska, where she learned how to raise a wolf cub, to skin a moose and to survive in the wilderness. When she married a fisherman who fished herring and the Kodiak salmon-run for half the year, these skills would stand her in good stead. She raised her family, ran a smallholding, delivered post to her remote community, all at the same time as writing stories and novels. She succeeded on all fronts, raising four children and becoming an internationally best-selling writer. She lives in Tacoma, Washington State.

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