A masterful work, a deplorable French editor

5 stars My only concerns the content, I can only recommend to anyone who loves fantasy adventure novels.

The characters are endearing and cared for, the captivating story, the coherent and interesting universe. Everything is served by effective writing, simple without being simplistic and particularly pleasant to read.

I will not elaborate further as others have already done better than me.

However, I must draw the attention of potential readers of this work on the practices of the French publisher. Hard to believe that in our time a publishing house still dares do so and hope nobody realizes it.

Let me explain:

The text itself is the full text and the translation is very good.

However, the fact of presenting the novels of Robin Hobb in a unique saga of 13 volumes and a mere aberration.

Indeed, Robin Hobb has written three trilogies set in the same universe:
- The Farseer (broken down as follows: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest)
- The Liveship Traders (Ship of Magic, Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny)
- The Tawny Man (Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate)

This release order is also the chronological order of events there. To avoid killing any suspense, it is obviously necessary to read these trilogies in the order provided by the author.

Except that obviously France, a genius noticed trilogies The Farseer and Tawny The Man had the same main characters (20 years apart) and therefore decided to combine these two trilogies in a single saga entitled The Royal Assassin .

And as if that were not enough, these two trilogies (and therefore six pounds) have miraculously transformed into 13 books.

What about the trilogy Liveship Traders? She suffered the same fate. Entitled Raiders of the Sea, its 3 American volumes have become 9 books in French.

If you wish to respect the chronological order of events, so you need to read volumes 1 to 6 of the Royal Assassin, then 9 volumes of Raiders of the Sea before resuming volumes 7-13 of the Royal Assassin.

And that's not all, because if Pygmalion transformed the original 9 pounds in 22 French books, he has none so far lowered the volume of each sale price.

VO as VF, each book is indeed sold around 8 in paperback.

To read the three trilogies in VO, it will therefore cost 72. VF? 176!

And even worse: the e-book version.

VO? 4.5 volume totaling 40.5

VF? 15 the volume! A total of 330 to read the same thing.

You'll understand Pygmalion Rubbish and clearly did not understand the eBook market.