The Farseer Trilogy

Turns out that I had read this book a few years ago on vacation, but I recall very little of it. This time I enjoyed it much more. It's not perfect, a lot of “telling” when I prefer “showing”. But knowing that this is the beginning of a large 16 book epic helps put it in perspective for me. This is more of a prologue of what is to come, an introduction to a character that I understand comes and goes throughout the entire series. One of the problems I have with it is that this is supposed to be a book about the origins and training of the main character, but the actual training part of the book was really skimmed over. Especially his combat training which was barely mentioned, but his training as both an assassin and a wizard were focused more on his relationships with his mentors than the actual details of what he is taught. To me, this has the effect that I know only vaguely of the main character's skills, but I actually have a lot more detailed knowledge of his motivations, which is not was I was expecting from the novel, but may be more beneficial to the series as a whole.