Ebook {Epub PDF} Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb

Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb was a fascinating read for me. On the one hand the prose is beautiful, the world building deep, and the characters incredibly well crafted. On the other, that beautiful prose is sometimes a little on the verbose side and those well-crafted characters make incredibly stupid decisions at every turn to move along a /5(K). Ship of Magic is the first book of The Liveship Traders www.doorway.ru is followed by The Mad Ship and Ship of www.doorway.ru was first published in Blurb []. Wizardwood. A sentient wood. The most precious commodity in the world. Like many other legendary wares, in comes only from the Rain River Wilds. After a blood plague killed the three Vestrit sons, Ephron raised Althea as the heir to Vivacia. Althea grew up on Vivacia 's decks and developed a bond with the ship, and when Ephron chooses to pass the ship to her sister, she is much dismayed.

The trilogy was comprised by Ship of Magic, Mad Ship and Ship of Destiny in , 19respectively. The tale follows the adventures of Liveship Vivacia as the magical ship comes to consciousness, and is taken over first as a slave ship and then as a private vessel. Ship of Magic is a fantasy novel by American writer Robin Hobb, the first in her Liveship Traders Trilogy. Plot summary. Ship of Magic is the first book of the Liveship Traders series and follows the fortunes of the Vestrit family. A liveship is a ship made of Wizardwood, a mystical substance, giving it magical properties. Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1) Published March by Voyager. Mass Market Paperback, pages. Author (s): Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author) ISBN: X (ISBN ) Edition language: English.

Liveship Traders Trilogy Ser.: Ship of Magic: The Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb (Mass Market Paperback). The book has minor wear around the edges of the book. The book is very slightly warped from reading. Robin Hobb, author of the Farseer trilogy, has returned to that world for a new series. Ship of Magic is a sea tale, reminiscent of Moby Dick and Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series in its details of shipboard life. It is also a fantasy adventure with sea serpents, pirates, and all sorts of magic. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy. For Althea’s young nephew, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard the ship, the Vivacia is a life sentence. But the fate of the ship—and the Vestrits—may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider: the ruthless buccaneer captain Kennit, who plans to seize power over the Pirate Isles by capturing a liveship and bending it to his will.