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Realm of the Elderlings · Book 1

Assassin's Apprentice

by Robin Hobb
Published
1 January 1995
Pages
400
ISBN-13
9780593722824
Type
novel
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About this book

Assassin's Apprentice opened Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings in 1995, introducing FitzChivalry Farseer, a royal bastard trained as a covert assassin at the Farseer court -- the first of a trilogy built on court intrigue and blood magic. It runs 400 pages and is the book where the saga's central relationship, Fitz's decades-long struggle between duty and want, begins.

Key facts about Assassin's Apprentice

Assassin's Apprentice is a novel by Robin Hobb. Readers have had it since 1995. It runs to 400 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of Assassin's Apprentice. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780593722824 to find the main one.

Assassin's Apprentice is book 1 of 16 in the Realm of the Elderlings series. The series has 16 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.

Additionally, Robin Hobb writes The Ki and Vandien Quartet and The Soldier Son Trilogy as separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy and epic fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Assassin's Fate is the latest published Robin Hobb book on file, from May 2017.

About Robin Hobb

Robin Hobb is the primary pen name of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, an American fantasy author best known for the Realm of the Elderlings, a sprawling sequence of interconnected trilogies beginning with the Farseer Trilogy (Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest) and continuing through the Liveship Traders, Tawny Man, Rain Wild Chronicles, and Fitz and the Fool trilogies. See every Robin Hobb book in order.

Its place in Realm of the Elderlings

Assassin's Apprentice is book 1 in the Realm of the Elderlings series. It is followed by Royal Assassin. See the full Realm of the Elderlings reading order.

Realm of the Elderlings is Robin Hobb's umbrella name for sixteen novels across five trilogies and quartets, all set in the same world and connected above all by FitzChivalry Farseer — a royal bastard trained as a covert assassin, bonded against every rule of his society to a wolf, and forced across decades to keep choosing duty over the one thing he actually wants. The saga opens with the Farseer trilogy's court intrigue and blood magic, widens into the Liveship Traders trilogy's sentient, memory-hungry sailing…

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