The Mad Ship: Book 2 (The Liveship Traders) - Softcover

9780002247139: The Mad Ship: Book 2 (The Liveship Traders)
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The magic and mayhem continue in this thrilling second instalment of Hobb’s new series.

The Vivacia is now under new ownership, but the struggle for power between her two ‘captains’ is postponed while they both recover from near-fatal injuries. Kennit lies on the verge of death, secreted away belowdecks in his cabin. Will Wintrow succeed in performing the life-threatening amputation on Kennit’s leg? Both Wintrow and Kennit know that their lives hang in the balance: if Wintrow fails, Kennit will surely die and the young priest faces certain death at the hands of the formidable Etta. Meanwhile Wintrow’s relationship with his ailing father can only go from bad to worse.

Althea has found a new home aboard the liveship Ophelia, in whom she has found a dependable friend. Together will they manage to reclaim Althea’s rightful position aboard Vivacia?

The Vestrit family who remain at home continue to fight to keep their family from bankruptcy; Malta finds herself unwillingly embroiled with the Khuprus family – but it is surely a situation she will turn to her advantage...

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In Ship of Magic, Robin Hobb introduced us to the Bingtown traders and their comfortable world, just at the point where it starts to fall apart, a process which accelerates in this second book of the Liveship Traders series. Slavery and slave trading have come into fashion, and the old trading alliance with the strangely disfigured colonists of the Rain Wilds is falling apart. Their distant overlords in Jamailla are making demands of tribute and a slavery hating pirate captain has ambitions of his own. Hobbs' characters are complex and usually attractive; her sense of the conflicts that arise between imperfect goods is sophisticated. Above all, she shows a capacity for sympathy in unlikely places--Kennit, the pirate who constantly tries to deny that he has a conscience; Althea, who will sacrifice almost everything to her desire to get back control of the family ship; the ships themselves, intelligent beings whose grace and charm hide the fact that they are the victims of a crime nonetheless gross for being inadvertent. Like the Assassin trilogy before it, the Liveship Traders books take us to a world of beauty and strangeness, where actions plausibly have terrible consequences. --Roz Kaveney

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  • PublisherHarper Voyager
  • Publication date1999
  • ISBN 10 0002247135
  • ISBN 13 9780002247139
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages688
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