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This week's neglected book 
✱All books are affiliate links to AmazonShip of Magic (Liveship Traders #1) by Robin Hobb
Paperback, 809 pagesPublished February 2nd, 1999 by Spectra
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Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
Series: Realms of the Elderlings, Book 4, Liveship Traders, Book 1
Length: 35 hrs and 24 mins
Release date: 2010-02-12Publisher's Summary
Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships---rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her---a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim.I added Ship of Magic to my shelf on November 10, 2012. I was so obsessed with Laini Taylors Daughter of Smoke and Bone so when she recommended it, I jumped. It is a really thick book 809 pages! I bought the mass paperback but the text is really small and I never got very far with it. So it's something I wish I could read soon. I should probably get the audiobook so it will be easier to read.
For Althea's young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard ship, Vivacia is a life sentence. But the fate of the Vestrit family---and the ship---may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles...and the first step of his plan requires him to capture his own liveship and bend it to his will.
I have seen Robin Hobb all over the place for years but haven't read any of his books yet. It is a pretty long book especially if the print is tiny. I hope you get the chance to read this one soon.
ReplyDeleteThanks Carole!
DeleteTiny print is torture, especially 809 pages of it. Hopefully you'll get to it soon on audiobook and enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteI hope you love this one when you read it. I have been wanting to read something by Robin Hobb for awhile, but have yet to. I admit the size of this one would make me hesitate, and yet so many of these tomes are worth reading.
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