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The Golden Fool
- The Tawny Man Trilogy, Book 2
- Narrated by: Nick Taylor
- Length: 25 hrs and 6 mins
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Summary
The second in the thrilling fantasy series returning readers to the Six Duchies and the magical world of the Farseers, from the author of the bestselling Assassin’s Apprentice.
Fitz has succeeded in rescuing Prince Dutiful from the clutches of the Piebald rebels, and has returned with him to Buckkeep castle. With Dutiful safe again, Queen Kettricken can proceed with plans to marry him to the Outislander princess, Elliania, but with tensions building among the peoples of the Six Duchies over Kettricken’s tolerance of the Wittted, even Buckkeep is no longer safe. A reluctant Fitz is assigned to protect the young prince, and also train him in the Skill, and in doing so he finally makes contact not only with his estranged daughter, Nettle, but with someone in Buckkeep who may possess a greater Skill talent than Fitz. And who may represent a terrible threat to the Farseers. Meanwhile, Elliania arrives, and before she will accept Prince Dutiful’s betrothal challenges him to undertake an impossible quest. He must kill a legendary Outislander dragon.
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'Hobb is one of the great modern fantasy writers… what makes her novels as addictive as morphine is not just their imaginative brilliance but the way her characters are compromised and manipulated by politics.'
The Times
Assassin's Apprentice:
'A gleaming debut'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Assassin's Quest:
'Assassin's Quest achieves a bittersweet, powerful complexity rare in fantasy' LOCUS
'Robin Hobb writes achingly well'
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Praise for The Liveship Traders series:
'Even better than the Assassin books. I didn't think that was possible'
George R R Martin
'Hobb is a remarkable storyteller.'
Guardian
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- JAggleton
- 03-02-21
Great book, terrible editing
I really enjoyed this audiobook. It's a wonderful story and I liked Nick Taylor's performance a great deal. However the editing is incredibly poor - too short cuts at ends of chapters, some sections repeated, some parts (including the end of the epilogue!) missed out altogether. A recut version of this would be great if that is possible.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-09-22
Great book overall
But why Queen Kettricken has a french accent?? Makes no sense and the narrator makes it sounds so very annoying, terrible choise in my opinnion.
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- AnnaBanya
- 25-06-23
Unspeakably brilliant
So very good. Many epic fantasy series tail off in quality after a few books, but not so this one. This is the 2nd book back in Buck with Fitz after three books with the Live Ships, and I am still completely gripped.
I have to acknowledge the narrator as well as the amazing author: it is SO good not to be distracted by weird pronunciations and diction after the teeth-clenching awfulness of the 1st three books. It took a short while to get used to the change in name pronunciation, but they actually are truer to the spellings this way.
Thank you for another exceptional instalment. On to the next!
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- Kelly1980mc
- 16-08-21
Love the series but editing issues noted
The amount of errors in this series (Tawny Man) is concerning and frustrating. There are repeated lines - obviously where the narrator has tried different expressions - but this hasn't been edited out on multiple occasions. One other issue I have is the speed and volume of the Chapter change announcement.
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- FEZ
- 21-09-21
fantastic
these books get better and better the more i listen. what an author!!! on to the next
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- Ben
- 24-01-18
Stirling work!
Another book featuring Fitz and the beloved Fool, it stirs up emotion and left this listener eager to hear the next part!
Gold standard voice work as usual!
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- Anonymous User
- 10-04-23
Perfect (for me)
Thank you Robin Hobb for taking me to your world. I like listening to your books and be swept away.
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- matthew
- 24-02-15
Another great listen
Not only is this a gripping, great take but brilliantly narrated too. Robin Hobb is a fantasy genius and I'm quite sad I am coming to the end of the series.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-06-23
Amazing like all her books!
I live following this story through, this one really has you guessing in some parts! Great author and well read :)
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- Kindle Customer
- 17-08-24
Book 2 of the tawny man trilogy
Nothing to dislike, good continuation of the farseer story, will carry on with the trilogy and the other books in the series
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