Hobb, Robin - Fool's Fate

[oyceter]

I want to go back! Read it too fast, and now all I want to do is luxuriate in a reread of the trilogy.

And all I can think of right now is: the Fool went away! He wasn't supposed to go away, he was supposed to go off with Fitz and.. I don't know. Do something. But together. Waaaaah!

And Fitz brought him back and oh his poor back and the mind touches without barriers and then I'm supposed to be happy because he goes off and marries Molly, who I never cared that much about anyway, after the thing with the Fool and how is that supposed to match up anyway?

Guh.

And Burrich! Cried when they finally met and Burrich says that when Fitz is hurt all he can think of is a six year old boy and his promise to Chivalry.

Glad Elliania and Dutiful like each other, because I liked the Narcheska.

There may be more coherent thoughts on healing and on things going right and scars disappearing (even the fingerprints! Did those reeeaally have to go away?) and things coming back (mmm, scene with Girl on Dragon) later.

But... oh, the poor Fool in the hands of the Pale Woman and Fitz has to find him like that.

Ouch, I still hurt.

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[oyceter]

Giant emotional payoff! And not just of this trilogy, but it's a huge emotional payoff of the other two as well. So impressed with all the detail laid in from the beginning and how it all works out and with the knowledge that while this would have been heartrending nonetheless, it's even more so because we've been immersed in the world for nine books. Ha. I bet Robert Jordan wishes he could do that ;).

I remember not being all that emotional when the two dragons finally mated, despite knowing it was the Fool's goal all along, but when Fitz goes back, waterworks. The entire way through. Especially when Fitz just starts calling the Fool "my Fool" and Beloved, and then again when the Fool asks him to stop.

Definitely think the Fool and Fitz meeting again won't happen for a while -- think now the Fool needs to figure out himself as well, almost like what Fitz was doing. The Fool seems to be at the kind of point Fitz was at after Royal Assassin. Hee, but the fanficcer in me is thinking of scenarios and remembering that the Skill prolongs lifespans (Kettle!) and wondering if Fitz will go find the Fool after Fitz's family is grown up and Molly is gone. Has a nice sort of symmetry for me. I will make up scenarios in my head to comfort myself, because the book is still lodged in my heart and nothing right now feels quite as real as the Six Duchies.

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[thewildmole.livejournal.com]

*snort* Robert Jordan wishes he could write anything other than "she tugged her braid and smoothed her skirt".

...because the book is still lodged in my heart and nothing right now feels quite as real as the Six Duchies.

I feel the same way. I didn't even turn on the car stereo on the way home because I didn't want to change the way I was feeling.

I went and checked her site and she says she "thinks" it's the last Fitz/Fool book, but that she thought that at the end of the Assassin series as well. She said that if an idea presented itself she would write it; however, she wouldn't write a Fitz/Fool book just for the sake of "branding". I'm going to hope for more since it took her five years to swing back around to the Six Duchies. But even if she does, that means it's gonna be a couple years.

I've already started re-reading Assassin's Apprentice...

And, hey, feel free to email me if you want to discuss any part of the book in detail *g*.