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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1664770" data-attributes="member: 5171">Pretty much what everyone else said.  I agree in part with Kahuna Burger -- I wasn't satisfied with the resolution of the rape, especially given the fact that it should have been fairly easy to discover from a number of different magical angles.What's interesting, KB, is that Hobb seems to answer some of your anger in her third book.  [spoiler]Remember how in the final book of the first trilogy, Fitz puts a lot of his anger and hatred and shame at being tortured into a block of dragon stone?  It's strongly implied that doing this -- having his emotions magically removed from him -- is one of the things that made it impossible for him to have any meaningful relationships for a long time.  While the ship's removal of the character's pain isn't exactly the same as losing that pain to the memory stone, it's close enough that I suspect you weren't alone in feeling that.[/spoiler]I didn't have a problem with the end of any of Hobb's trilogies -- although the end of the Tawny Man trilogy wasn't what I wanted.  It wasn't badly done -- it just wasn't the ending that I would have chosen.</blockquote>