Description: No one possesses such world-building finesse as Robin Hobb, who enjoys such passionate devotion from readers that she has ascended to the top ranks of fantasy writers. Hobb has also won lofty praise from her peers, including George R. R. Martin, who called Assassin's Quest "fantasy as it ought to be written", and Melanie Rawn, who dubbed the same book "unforgettable".

In her tense, sweeping, multi-layered new epic, Hobb returns to the vibrant city of Bingtown, where pirates plague the coasts and the dreaded slave trade flourishes. As legitimate trade falls off, ancient ways of life erode, and the people fear that their culture will disappear.

Althea Vestrit does not have time to be afraid, for her family's newly awakened Liveship, Vivacia, has been seized by the ruthless pirate, Kennit. This indignity seems the final blow, so Althea hatches a bold plan. But to carry out her plan, she must recruit a Liveship that has already slain two crews and is rumored to be insane.

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