![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the sea serpents who follow sailing ships struggle to remember their history and return to their place of transformation. Malta, Althea’s niece, seeks help from her suitor, the Rain Wild Trader Reyn, whose family is the Vestritt’s major creditor. Brashen Trell, her old friend and shipmate, proposes that they sail to Vivacia’s rescue in the liveship Paragon, who has lost two previous crews and is believed mad. Captain Haven is a prisoner his son Wintrow, who bears the Vestritt blood, finds himself competing with Kennit for Vivacia’s love as she becomes a pirate ship.Īlthea Vestritt, in training to become Vivacia’s captain, arrives home to discover her beloved ship lost. The Vestritt family’s liveship, Vivacia, has been taken by Kennit, an ambitious pirate. I keep returning to the story, helped along by my buddy read with Emily at Embuhlee liest. Still, the world and characters Hobb has created are so interesting that I can’t break for long. ![]() It makes me take frequent breaks from the story and thus a longer time to read it. The book is long, at about 850 pages, but my reading was slow because the story is emotionally heavy and emotionally charged scenes are dragged out. I started Mad Ship, the second in the trilogy, at the end of February and completed it in early May. It takes a while for me to wade through Robin Hobb’s books, especially the Liveship Traders trilogy. ![]()
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