Ship of Magic

I loved Hobb's Farseer trilogy, so I was ready to love this one.

25% into the first book, and I literally despise every character except the sea serpents (which have had about 3 pages devoted to their weirdness to this point). I would actually enjoy reading a description of the characters all fighting each other in some sort of battle royale to the death more than what they are currently doing, which is mostly whining and/or being utterly despicable people. I'm not kidding, without being outright murderers or rapists, these people are some of the worst I've ever read about. And since Dexter and Joe Abercrombie are favorites of mine, I guess some murderers are portrayed as far more interesting than these characters. Sad thing is, I know Hobb is capable of writing characters I care about. She just chose not to in this book, for some reason.

I shouldn't have to read further than this to find something to keep me going. So I'm giving up. Maybe the rest of the book and trilogy are the greatest literary creations ever, but I'll never find out because I don't care to keep trying.

Hopefully getting back to Fitz and The Fool will be better than this.