Assassin's Apprentice

On my first reread and just: wow. This book is just as enchanting as the first time I read it. Fitz has my entire heart. He's one of my favorite types of protagonists: someone dropped into it and just trying to do their best. This first book in the series hits particularly hard because we follow him as he grows up and we know him as he's young, so to see him just be used by almost everyone in his life, by his own family, to get reduced to a weapon to them first and a person second is just heartbreaking. As is knowing that it only gets worse from here. I can't wait to finish his story.