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[white_hart]

I have one of those "free promotional credit" things from Amazon and for once some of the books on offer sound vaguely interesting but aren't things I already have: Divergent by Veronica Roth, The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell or Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb. Does anyone have any particular recommendations/disrecommendations for any of them?

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[coughingbear]

I have the same thing so this conversation is very useful!

I am a fan of Robin Hobb and I like the Liveship Traders books - partly because of the ships, but also I really like the worldbuilding and the way she has thought about the economics of the set-up. But probably if you are going to read her you should start with Assassin's Apprentice.

[white_hart]

It appears that lots of people have had this offer! (T did too, but he went for the Jonathan Franzen which wasn't even on my list of possibles. Anyway, we have set up Amazon Family Sharing so I can read his copy if I want.)

I went for Divergent in the end, because several people said "don't start there with Hobb".