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The Vestritt family's liveship, Vivacia, has been taken by Kennit, an ambitious pirate. 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. Althea Vestritt, in training to become Vivacia's captain, arrives home to discover her beloved ship lost. 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. Malta, Althea's niece, seeks help from her suitor, the Rain Wild Trader Reyn, whose family is the Vestritt's major creditor. Meanwhile, the sea serpents who follow sailing ships struggle to remember their history and return to their place of transformation.
Each volume in this series is a major undertaking, but those who enjoy original, epic fantasy, characters who grow and change believably, and fine writing will not want to miss The Liveship Traders. --Nona Vero --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
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5.0 étoiles sur 5
Terrific.,
Par Stephanie Noverraz "crooty" (Lausanne, Switzerland) - Voir tous mes commentaires
Ce commentaire fait référence à cette édition : Mad Ship: The Liveship Traders (Poche)
This is the second book in The Liveship Taders trilogy (after Ship of Magic and before Ship of Destiny).After being banned from the deck of the slaughter ship the Reaper because she's a woman, without her well-deserved ship ticket, and after breaking up with her companion Brashen Trell, Althea Vestrit is hired as mate on board a Bingtown-bound Liveship, the Ophelia. And when the ship betrays her secret to Captain Tenira, Althea fears she'll be given the sack again. Luckily it doesn't happen and soon the crew and ship rally to her cause, promising they'll help her gain her rightful heirloom, the Liveship Vivacia, back. But not so far on the seas, the Vivacia has just been boarded by Kennit's gang of pirates and her crew taken prisoners, thanks in part to the rebellion of the slaves that made up her cargo. In exchange for his life and that of his father, Wintrow will have to heal Kennit gangrenous leg stump. The situation seems desperate. And all the while in Bingtown 12-year-old Malta, Wintrow's sister and Althea's niece, is waiting for her father to return with his precious cargo that is supposed to help her family pay off their debts to the Khuprus of the Rain Wilds, her suitor Reyn's family. But since she's opened Reyn's courting Dreambox, she's been having troubling dreams about a dragon pleading for her help. Parallelly, Amber the beadmaker is making scandalous plans to buy the Paragon, a abandoned Liveship who is believed mad, and his majesty the Satrap Cosgo of Jamaillia and his court are on their way to Bingtown. Once again Robin Hobb has wrought a wonderful epic tale of ships and serpents, love, magic and intrigue. The more pages you turn, the more you realise her world is a truly enchanting and mysterious one, where characters never stop growing in depth, especially young and capricious Malta who matures a lot in the course of this book. Robin Hobb writes so terrifically well, her stories flow so naturally that you wish they'd never end. Aidez d'autres clients à trouver les commentaires les plus utiles
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incroyablement riche,
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Ce commentaire fait référence à cette édition : The Mad Ship. Robin Hobb (Poche)
Robin Hobb est un écrivain extraordinaire, elle sait créer un monde vraiment riche, des personnages très complexes, un monde entier crédible et palpable! J'avais bien aimé sa trilogie de l'Assassin Royal, mais je trouve que celle des Liveship Traders est encore meilleure.
Mad Ship est le second tome des Liveship Traders, c'est comme d'habitude un pavé, et comme d'habitude on peut trouver ça long à commencer. Mais quel bonheur! C'est une oeuvre absolument fantastique, tout y est très bien pensé, les personnages ne sont jamais caricaturaux ni parfaits, l'histoire en elle-même est absolument passionnante et pleine de rebondissements. Hobb a fait le choix dangereux de changer de point de vue toutes les 3 ou 4 pages, mais elle s'en tire admirablement, et son roman est d'autant plus difficile à lâcher. Les mystères se dévoilent petit à petit, d'autres s'obscurcissent encore, le danger se précise et on se surprend à lire de plus en plus vite au fur et à mesure que la fin du tome approche. Et cerise sur le gâteau, Hobb a une plume délicieuse, et une maîtrise de son art admirable. Aidez d'autres clients à trouver les commentaires les plus utiles
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