My gosh, you are an absolute hero for doing this rerecording (and making it feel so authentic and spontaneous as well!!!) Loved hearing all your in-depth thoughts, it's such a joy to reexperience this trilogy with you. Couldn't agree more on Verity and Kettricken, they are SUCH good characters. Also, I think Molly and Fitz' romance is underrated, they have such a special bond even if they sometimes don't even realise it themselves and sabotage their own happiness. And this ending... absolutely insanity, can you imagine having had to wait for the next book?!?!
Thanks! Almost four hours was a lot haha. Totally agree that Molly and Fitz' romance is underrated! I wish we had more time with it tbh. I know, right? I'm so glad we can binge it haha.
Yessss!!! Thank you for putting in the effort for refilming this!! Royal Assassin is one of my favourite books ever, can't wait to listen to your gush review in its glorious entirety
When I read this, I considered it one of my favourite books of all-time (that's still true) but I dunno if this is even in my Top 5 books in the whole series. Molly gets a lot of mixed reactions from readers. While I always understood where she was coming from she's ultimately a character I don't feel strongly about one way or the other. Nighteyes ❤ I could be misremembering but I'm fairly certain its in this book, a moment Fitz acknowledges Patience as his mother when he's going to visit her. Love Patience.
I said before in your Assassin’s Apprentice review that Realm of the Elderlings is my favourite fantasy book series ever (which is still true). However, I forgot to mention that The Liveship Traders is my favourite book trilogy of all time - I’m very excited to hear your thoughts on that trilogy when you get to it! 😁
Great video, as always. For me, what's so infuriating about the whole setup in the Farseer trilogy is how Regal and his cronies are essentially being enabled by the people around them. These guys aren't nearly as competent or smart as they think themselves to be. Anyone with an ounce of common sense can see that they're up to no good, and yet no one does anything. I remember one Redditor who said something to the effect of "If this were a video game, Regal would be playing on easy mode." Call me naive (heck, you're probably right), but I suspect this bears a strong resemblance to how things work in reality. I bet that a lot of real-life villains only get away with the things that they do simply because they're surrounded by people who're too ignorant or uncaring to do anything about it and are content to look the other way.
Thanks Sam! "I bet that a lot of real-life villains only get away with the things that they do simply because they're surrounded by people who're too ignorant or uncaring to do anything" I can literally point to multiple instances of this today :) so definitely agree. However, I think in the book they lack evidence so they can't really point to anything to indict him. They all have suspicions, and Regal isn't even trying to hide that he's up-to-something, but they don't have hard facts to show that he's *actually* doing something wrong. I definitely think there are points where there is a bit of naivety in how to resolve the issue of Regal, but he's also quite good at swinging things in his favour because he's so charismatic (to the average layperson). I, perhaps, wasn't super charitable to the characters in the video but upon reflection, they couldn't really do much.
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My gosh, you are an absolute hero for doing this rerecording (and making it feel so authentic and spontaneous as well!!!)
Loved hearing all your in-depth thoughts, it's such a joy to reexperience this trilogy with you. Couldn't agree more on Verity and Kettricken, they are SUCH good characters. Also, I think Molly and Fitz' romance is underrated, they have such a special bond even if they sometimes don't even realise it themselves and sabotage their own happiness.
And this ending... absolutely insanity, can you imagine having had to wait for the next book?!?!
Thanks! Almost four hours was a lot haha.
Totally agree that Molly and Fitz' romance is underrated! I wish we had more time with it tbh.
I know, right? I'm so glad we can binge it haha.
Yessss!!! Thank you for putting in the effort for refilming this!!
Royal Assassin is one of my favourite books ever, can't wait to listen to your gush review in its glorious entirety
You're welcome! Hope you enjoyed it :)
When I read this, I considered it one of my favourite books of all-time (that's still true) but I dunno if this is even in my Top 5 books in the whole series.
Molly gets a lot of mixed reactions from readers. While I always understood where she was coming from she's ultimately a character I don't feel strongly about one way or the other.
Nighteyes ❤
I could be misremembering but I'm fairly certain its in this book, a moment Fitz acknowledges Patience as his mother when he's going to visit her. Love Patience.
Wow, that's insane haha.
Who is your favourite character from the whole of the Farseer trilogy? Is it Patience?
@@bookswithzarashe probably is. Either her or Fitz.
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This and your book on assassins apprentice were just what I need, loved how you read quotes and stuff like that as well. I’ve just started book 3
Glad you enjoyed them both! Hope you enjoy book three, I'll be filming my review of it soon :)
Farseer, woo! Royal Assassin was great. I'm currently reading book two in the Tawny Man trilogy.
Nice! How are you finding it?
🎉🎉🎉🎉 oh no on having to rerecord
I can't wait to hear your AQ thoughts where things come together...somewhat.
Coming soon!
I said before in your Assassin’s Apprentice review that Realm of the Elderlings is my favourite fantasy book series ever (which is still true). However, I forgot to mention that The Liveship Traders is my favourite book trilogy of all time - I’m very excited to hear your thoughts on that trilogy when you get to it! 😁
Wow that's awesome. I'm so excited to get to Liveships. I'll likely start it in January. Start the year with a bang and all that ;)
Great video, as always.
For me, what's so infuriating about the whole setup in the Farseer trilogy is how Regal and his cronies are essentially being enabled by the people around them. These guys aren't nearly as competent or smart as they think themselves to be. Anyone with an ounce of common sense can see that they're up to no good, and yet no one does anything. I remember one Redditor who said something to the effect of "If this were a video game, Regal would be playing on easy mode."
Call me naive (heck, you're probably right), but I suspect this bears a strong resemblance to how things work in reality. I bet that a lot of real-life villains only get away with the things that they do simply because they're surrounded by people who're too ignorant or uncaring to do anything about it and are content to look the other way.
Thanks Sam!
"I bet that a lot of real-life villains only get away with the things that they do simply because they're surrounded by people who're too ignorant or uncaring to do anything" I can literally point to multiple instances of this today :) so definitely agree.
However, I think in the book they lack evidence so they can't really point to anything to indict him. They all have suspicions, and Regal isn't even trying to hide that he's up-to-something, but they don't have hard facts to show that he's *actually* doing something wrong. I definitely think there are points where there is a bit of naivety in how to resolve the issue of Regal, but he's also quite good at swinging things in his favour because he's so charismatic (to the average layperson). I, perhaps, wasn't super charitable to the characters in the video but upon reflection, they couldn't really do much.
@@bookswithzara Fair enough. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on Assassin's Quest!
Wolves have no Kings 😢