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Fitz Chevalerie doit apprendre à vivre avec sa fille, Abeille, après la mort de sa femme Molly. Étrangement précoce et intelligente, l’enfant poursuit une existence à demi sauvage dans le domaine de Flétribois auprès d’un père qui ignore comment l’élever et d’un personnel qui, au mieux, la regarde comme une bête curieuse, au pire, la méprise. Livrée à elle-même, elle découvre les passages secrets que dissimulent les murs de la maison, se lie d’amitié avec un chat et apprend par bribes la vie d’assassin que mena jadis son père. Un jour, une jeune femme arrive, porteuse d’un message du Fou ; mais elle est si gravement blessée qu’elle expire avant de pouvoir tout dire. Fitz, craignant que ses meurtriers ne s’en prennent à sa famille, brûle son cadavre, dissimule sa mort et laisse croire qu’elle a poursuivi sa route. Un matin où Fitz se rend au marché avec sa fille, celle-ci est prise à partie par un mendiant que son père poignarde… Or, il s’agit du Fou… Robin Hobb ressuscite ici magnifiquement les personnages de la célèbre série de L’Assassin royal qui l’a rendue célèbre dans le monde entier.
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** I am shocked to find that some people think a 2 star 'I liked it' rating is a bad rating. What? I liked it. I LIKED it! That means I read the whole thing, to the last page, in spite of my life raining comets on me. It's a good book that survives the reading process with me. If a book is so-so, it ends up under the bed somewhere, or maybe under a stinky judo bag in the back of the van. So a 2 star from me means,yes, I liked the book, and I'd loan it to a friend and it went everywhere in my jacket pocket or purse until I finished it. A 3 star means that I've ignored friends to finish it and my sink is full of dirty dishes. A 4 star means I'm probably in trouble with my editor for missing a deadline because I was reading this book. But I want you to know . . . I don't finish books I don't like. There's too many good ones out there waiting to be found. Robin Hobb is the author of three well-received fantasy trilogies: The Farseer Trilogy (Assassin’s Apprentice, Royal Assassin, and Assassin’s Quest), The Liveship Traders Trilogy (Ship of Magic, Mad Ship and Ship of Destiny) and the Tawny Man Trilogy (Fool’s Errand, Golden Fool, and Fool’s Fate) Her current work in progress is entitled Shaman’s Crossing. Robin Hobb lives and works in Tacoma, Washington, and has been a professional writer for over 30 years. In addition to writing, her interests include gardening, mushrooming, and beachcombing. She and her husband Fred have three grown children and one teenager, and three grand-children. She also writes as Megan Lindholm, and works under that name have been finalists for the Hugo award, the Nebula Award, and the Endeavor award. She has twice won an Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Readers’ Award.
