Spoil(er) me
Mar. 29th, 2004 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonantAny Robin Hobb readers out there? Anybody want to tell me one good reason why I shouldn't assume she's doing the slashy thing on purpose?
I loved her novella in the Legends II compilation, so I went looking for the series. However, because our library is staffed by the Undead, Book 1 from the first trilogy is missing from the shelves, and no one knows what to do about this because the computer shows that it's there; and the library doesn't own Book 1 of the second trilogy, though they were nice enough to buy Books 2 and 3. So the best I could do was to grab Book 1 of the third trilogy, i.e. Fool's Errand.
I'm not completely sold on this book yet; there's an awful lot of musing, reminiscing, denying facts which are right before our eyes, and longing for the past. But the minute the Fool walked in (looking like Draco in a slash story as described through the eyes of a thoroughly besotted Harry) and began doing things like asking Fitz to call him "beloved," my interest level began to grow -- mainly because I don't, really, believe that we're headed into a canonically slashy place, but I cannot imagine how on earth she's going to explain the Fool's behavior in any other way, unless he's going to turn out to be a girl in Book 2.
So somebody who's read Book 2, come and tell me how I'm supposed to be interpreting this stuff! (And if there's any decent Fitz/Fool on the web, I'd love recs.)
I loved her novella in the Legends II compilation, so I went looking for the series. However, because our library is staffed by the Undead, Book 1 from the first trilogy is missing from the shelves, and no one knows what to do about this because the computer shows that it's there; and the library doesn't own Book 1 of the second trilogy, though they were nice enough to buy Books 2 and 3. So the best I could do was to grab Book 1 of the third trilogy, i.e. Fool's Errand.
I'm not completely sold on this book yet; there's an awful lot of musing, reminiscing, denying facts which are right before our eyes, and longing for the past. But the minute the Fool walked in (looking like Draco in a slash story as described through the eyes of a thoroughly besotted Harry) and began doing things like asking Fitz to call him "beloved," my interest level began to grow -- mainly because I don't, really, believe that we're headed into a canonically slashy place, but I cannot imagine how on earth she's going to explain the Fool's behavior in any other way, unless he's going to turn out to be a girl in Book 2.
So somebody who's read Book 2, come and tell me how I'm supposed to be interpreting this stuff! (And if there's any decent Fitz/Fool on the web, I'd love recs.)
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Date: 3/29/04 07:55 pm (UTC)a) the pov pissed me off for a long time, but eventually I realised it was the *character* pissing me off, and not the author, and,
b) beloved! Yes! omg etc. It made my jaded eyes go wide.