{"product_id":"ship-of-magic-liveship-traders-book-robin-hobb-9780553103243","title":"Ship of Magic: Liveship Traders","description":"\u003cb\u003eA truly extraordinary saga . . . The characterizations are consistently superb, and  Hobb] animates everything with love for and knowledge of the sea.--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships--rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. Now the fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship \u003ci\u003eVivacia\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy. For Althea's young nephew, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard the ship, the \u003ci\u003eVivacia\u003c\/i\u003e is a life sentence. But the fate of the ship--and the Vestrits--may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider: the ruthless buccaneer captain Kennit, who plans to seize power over the Pirate Isles by capturing a liveship and bending it to his will.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for Robin Hobb and the Liveship Traders Trilogy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fantasy as it ought to be written . . . Robin Hobb's books are diamonds in a sea of zircons.\u003cb\u003e--George R. R. Martin \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A major work of high fantasy, reading like a cross between Tolkien and Patrick O'Brian . . . one of the finest fantasy sagas to bridge the millennium.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Rich, complex . . .  Hobb's] plotting is complex but tightly controlled, and her descriptive powers match her excellent visual imagination. But her chief virtue is that she delineates character extremely well.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eInterzone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50477345505553,"sku":"CIN0553103245G","price":48.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50958508589329,"sku":"CIN0553103245VG","price":51.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51421280534801,"sku":"GOR004453688","price":87.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":54121450799377,"sku":"CIN0553103245A","price":32.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0553103245.jpg?v=1751166824","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/ship-of-magic-liveship-traders-book-robin-hobb-9780553103243","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}