Ship of Destiny (The Liveship Traders, Book 3)

Robin Hobb

Sep 2011 · The Liveship Traders Book 3 · HarperCollins UK

About this ebook

'Even better than the Assassin books. I didn't think that was possible' George R.R. Martin

The dragon, Tintaglia, has been released from her wizardwood coffin, only to find that the glories of her kingdom have passed into ancient memory.

Meanwhile, Malta Vestrit navigates the acid flow of the Rain Wild River in a decomposing boat, accompanied by the Satrap Cosgo and his Companion Kekki. Against hope, a ship appears in the alien waters, but does it mean rescue, or a further nightmare, for Malta?

In ruined Bingtown, the citizens are at war, If the city is to survive, Ronica Vestrit must unite all its peoples – both Trader and Tattooed – and liberate the city once and for all.

Althea and Brashen are finally at sea together, sailing the liveship Paragon into pirate waters in a last-ditch effort to rescue the Vestrit family liveship, Vivacia, stolen by the Pirate king, Kennit; but there is mutiny brewing in their rag-tag crew; and in the mind of the mad ship itself...

Majestic and sweeping, Ship of Destiny concludes the tale of the Vestrit family and their part in the history of The Liveship Traders with a soaring and unforgettable finale to this unique series of epic fantasy.

Ratings and reviews

I purchased this book with 912 pages. What I actually got was 545 of readable pages. I feel robbed. This is not the first time this has happened. So on this basis I mark my star rating accordingly. A shame for this writer as he is very good at what he does.

A brilliant book! She writes in such a way that all the character threads are interlinked. It was so exciting to see how all the characters had grown since the introduction of them in the first book. Highly recommend this trilogy!

Enthralling and so well written l am envious! The mind pictures her stories create make me wish l lived at that time and in that era. Fantasy as it is.......

About the author

Robin Hobb is one of the world’s finest writers of epic fiction.She was born in California in 1952 but raised in Alaska, where she learned how to raise a wolf cub, to skin a moose and to survive in the wilderness. When she married a fisherman who fished herring and the Kodiak salmon-run for half the year, these skills would stand her in good stead. She raised her family, ran a smallholding, delivered post to her remote community, all at the same time as writing stories and novels. She succeeded on all fronts, raising four children and becoming an internationally best-selling writer. She lives in Tacoma, Washington State.