[lunixer]

I welcome other opinions. I will not flame you or anything. This is just how I feel about the series:

Spoiler:

I don't think that I could possibly be more disappointed in such a highly praised and well-loved series. I read Farseer expecting to love it. I was wrong. The series dragged along with the same things happening over and over again. Characters (supposedly Hobbs' strong point) were cookie-cutter people who were entirely predictable. Hobbs seemed to love beating up on the good guys and then wrapping up everything with a Deus ex Machina.

But I can deal with that. I actually enjoy reading The Wheel of Time and even (yes I admit it) Terry Goodkind. But worst of all was how mediocre Fitz was. He was supposed to be a great assassin. But the only people he ever assassinated were mindless zombies that ate the poisoned food that he threw on the ground in front of them. He completely botched the one real assassination he tried- King Regal- when Hobb could have let him succeed and wrapped up a 900 page book (14000 kindle locations) 500 pages earlier. As he said many times, he was a failure as an assassin.

He was also a failure at the skill. He was supposed to have all of this strength, but was unable to defeat people in a poorly-trained coterie, even when they were separated from each other.

He was a failure as an advisor to the prince, to such an extent that he was not trusted to give any advice for the entire third book. Fitz was such a mediocre character that I can find no qualities that make him worthy to be the main character in what is supposed to be an epic fantasy. As the book wraps up he sticks his tail between his legs and is never heard from again.

And please, don't even get me started on how tired I am of "prophecies" in fantasy series. An author should not simply allow any old person to go on a quest. If they can't find a reason and have to go with "some prophecy foretold this" then their world is not believable enough.

I am certainly never going to read Hobb again.