Mad Ship

Unknown, Robin Hobb

Category: Action

Tags: Action

Robin Hobb (Author), Robin Hobb returns to the sea with Mad Ship, the second book in a projected trilogy set in the same world as her famed Farseer series. Many unresolved questions from Ship of Magic are answered in this tale of sea serpents and dragons; living ships made of wizardwood; the Bingtown Trader families who sail the ships; and their disfigured cousins, the Rain Wild Traders, who build them., The Vestritt familys liveship, Vivacia, has been taken by Kennit, an ambitious pirate. Captain Haven is a prisoner; his son Wintrow, who bears the Vestritt blood, finds himself competing with Kennit for Vivacias love as she becomes a pirate ship. Althea Vestritt, in training to become Vivacias captain, arrives home to discover her beloved ship lost. Brashen Trell, her old friend and shipmate, proposes that they sail to Vivacias rescue in the liveship Paragon, who has lost two previous crews and is believed mad. Malta, Altheas niece, seeks help from her suitor, the Rain Wild Trader Reyn