But the most important point of view characters from Rain Wilds to have an impact on Fitz And The Fool are characters we know from the Liveship trilogy, and the major events of the Chronicles are not too terribly unpredictable, given the events of the other sub-series. The conclusion to the series affects developments in the Fitz And The Fool trilogy, characters from the quartet appear in that trilogy and certain elements of the fantasy world are built upon further, so completists will need to read it. The Rain Wilds Chronicles, on the other hand, are rather more skippable. The Liveship trilogy is also much more intimately connected to the Farseer trilogy that at first it seems – hints are dropped throughout the first two books but the connection is only really revealed in the third (and even then, some readers at the time doubted it – it was not until The Golden Fool that it was spelled out unequivocally in the narrative). The final Fitz And The Fool trilogy brings together characters from all of the books and Assassin’s Fate in particular has major implications for everyone from that series, as well as Fitz. However, the Fitz books will be a much richer experience for readers who have also read the Liveship trilogy. So it is, of course, possible to read only the books narrated by Fitz and understand, broadly speaking, what is going on. In such a long series, we are regularly offered reminders of who everyone is and what has happened to them and brief explanations are offered for new readers as well. This inevitably leads to a common question – can readers just read the books about Fitz and skip the Liveship and Rain Wilds books? The answer depends largely on what you want to get out of them. It takes a long time for the connections between the Liveship trilogy and the Farseer trilogy to become clear, and some readers are simply less interested in books that are not about Fitz. There’s also the changing narration and focalisation to deal with – for many readers, their interest in this world is tied up in their attachment to Fitz, the character we follow throughout the first trilogy and our introduction into this world. They can be fairly slow-paced, and the slowest and, perhaps most difficult to get through, are all the opening volumes to sub-series ( Ship Of Magic, Dragon Keeper, and Fool’s Assassin). While the older ones will be available in cheap second-hand copies, investing in all the newer ones can be expensive, and they represent hours and hours of reading. Naturally, a lot of fans will be happy to read all the books, in order.
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