Ship of Magic

Robin Hobb

Feb 2010 · Liveship Traders Book 1 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Anne Flosnik

About this audiobook

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. 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.

Ratings and reviews

Love the writing but the reader is so cheesy I cringe the entire time I listen. I am simultaneously reading this and listening to the audio book when I have tasks that need my ha.ds. If I were only listening I'd hate.this bok, I avoid the audio book more and more, the reader is so intent on reading as if to a 6 year old. So.eone needs to.tell her there is a difference between voice acti.g and "doing voices". If there was any way to get my money back I would. Read this book, don't get the audio if possible.

I love this book, and normally would give it 5 stars, but the reader of the book was the worst in the world. her accent almost makes it sound like it isn't English, and she doesn't enunciate things very well. whomever let this lady read aloud for a living really made a booboo. Just read the book. book is great, reader is TERRIBLE.

About the author

Robin Hobb is the author of four well-received fantasy trilogies, the Farseer trilogy, the Liveship Traders trilogy, the Tawny Man trilogy, and the Soldier Son trilogy.

Anne Flosnik is an accomplished, multi-award-winning British actress, with lead credits for stage, television, commercials, industrials, voice-overs, and audiobooks. She has garnered three AudioFile Earphones Awards, including for Little Bee by Chris Cleave, and four Audie Award nominations.