Nick Tankard
3/10
Mostly filler. The teenage angst romance continues. At least it's relatively short. That kind of works against it, to be honest. By the time the plot starts moving, the book ends.
2/10
Hobb doubled down on the romance drama in this one. This book is mostly about horny people trying to figure out who wants to have sex with whom. And when they manage to figure that out, the sex scenes are extremely cringe-worthy. The rest of the book deals with grooming and feeding animals and breeding pigeons. The actual plot could be condensed into 100 pages or so.
6/10
Some interesting ideas but bogged down with boring and somewhat annoying parts. Often it felt try too hard with all the Victorian language and literary references. Should've been much shorter.
6/10
By far the best Rain Wilds book. Hobb saved most of the actual plot and action for the last installment. Unfortunately, the annoying love triangle and teenage angst romance are still present.
