Assassin's Quest
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 757
- ISBN-13
- 9781400144365
- Type
- novel
About this book
Assassin's Quest closes out the Farseer trilogy in 1997, the third entry in the Realm of the Elderlings at 757 pages. It completes the self-contained arc many readers stop at, before Robin Hobb widens the world into the Liveship Traders trilogy's separate cast and sentient ships.
Key facts about Assassin's Quest
Assassin's Quest is a novel by Robin Hobb. Readers have had it since 1997. It runs to 757 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Assassin's Quest. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781400144365 to find the main one.
Assassin's Quest is book 3 of 16 in the Realm of the Elderlings series. The series has 16 published books. However, the series starts with Assassin's Apprentice (1995).
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 Quest is book 3 in the Realm of the Elderlings series. It follows Royal Assassin. It is followed by Ship of Magic. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553897470
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780593157930
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007552146