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I'm reading Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice right now...
It's a good read so far, but I have to wonder how she managed to find an editor who let it be published "as is". She violates several "rules":
1. The first few chapters have very little action; it's mostly a lot of dressed-up infodump and character information with little to grab the reader.
2. Every sentence is decorated with adjectives and adverbs, almost to excess. Now I don't *personally* think she goes too far, but I can easily see a lot of editors being turned off by this. It's a frequently-cited complaint.
3. The novel is written in first-person POV, but at one point she breaks that by presenting information that would be outside the character's knowledge at the time. It's not really a problem; it fits with the story and the whole tale is being told after-the-fact anyway, but again I'm surprised an editor didn't jump all of this as being "technically" wrong.
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