Realm of the Elderlings · Book 14

Fool's Assassin

Published
1 August 2014
Pages
722
ISBN-13
9780008140274
Type
novel
Cover of Fool's Assassin

About this book

Fool's Assassin opens the Realm of the Elderlings' final trilogy, Fitz and the Fool, in August 2014 -- the fourteenth entry, bringing the saga back to FitzChivalry Farseer for the last time after the Rain Wild Chronicles' detour into dragons. It runs 722 pages.

Key facts about Fool's Assassin

Robin Hobb wrote Fool's Assassin, a novel on our list. It has been out since August 2014. The book has 722 pages.

We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780008140274 to find the main one.

Fool's Assassin is book 14 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

Fool's Assassin is book 14 in the Realm of the Elderlings series. It follows Blood of Dragons. It is followed by Fool's Quest. 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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