Assassin's Apprentice

Assassin's Apprentice

1995 • 400 pages

Ratings429

Average rating4.1

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In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma.

Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chivalry Farseer, is a royal bastard, cast out into the world, friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals - the old art known as the Wit - gives him solace and companionship. But the Wit, if used too often, is a perilous magic, and one abhorred by the nobility.

So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways and embrace a new life of weaponry, scribing, courtly manners; and how to kill a man secretly, as he trains to become a royal assassin.

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July 21, 2019

I liked this, but I felt like the main character's angst (sometimes justified, sometimes just silly whining) was the main driver of the story, and it got a bit tiring.

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