Perhaps unsurprisingly after gushing that the predecessor to this book, The Golden Fool, was the best in the series, Robin Hobb has outdone herself again in Fool’s Fate. Heartbreaking, hopeful, tense and gripping this story has it all.

 

Bringing an end to the Tawny Man trilogy, Fool’s Fate provides a satisfying conclusion to the main story arcs of that series within a series, while still revealing tantalising hints of more adventures to come across the wider linked Elderlings tales.

 

There was a point about halfway through that the main story appeared to be concluding, and where I was worried about how many pages were left to go and if it was just going to be filler. I should have learned by now that there’s no filler in a Robin Hobb book, but they do offer such a complex and interlinked world of characters, cultures and magic offer, that there are always more elements of the story to tell.