

This turns off a lot of readers who are still getting used to how Hobb slowly paces her stories and builds out her characters and world. Some people struggle with the first book, Assassin’s Apprentice, because you spend the beginning of the book in the mind of a six year old. The Farseer Trilogy is a single, first-person POV story of a young man named Fitz and is a deeply emotional and complex coming of age narrative. Which starting point is best for you? It depends on what you like best in your fantasy stories. The characters and storylines in these trilogies don’t intersect until the Tawny Man trilogy, and so either are good starting points. Both are set in the same world but are unconnected stories the Farseer Trilogy takes place in the land known as the Six Duchies, while the Liveship Traders is set to the lands further south. You can actually start with either the Farseer Trilogy or the Liveship Traders Trilogy. While that is great advice for most of the series, the answer is a bit more nuanced than that. The most common answer is to just follow publication order. Where should I start reading the Realm of the Elderings?


What Should I Expect from the Realm of the Elderlings? The Farseer Trilogy, The Tawny Man Trilogy, and the Fitz and the Fool Trilogy all follow the same main character, Fitz, while the other sub-series are set in another part of the same world.
