Novel Review: Shaman’s Crossing by Robin Hobb

‘Oh, the birth order destiny is fixed, of course. But why cannot a man be more than one thing? Think on it. Your own father has been a soldier, and now he is a lord. Why cannot an heir also be a poet, or a musician? Soldier-sons of nobles keep journals and sketchbooks, do they not? So, are you not also a writer and a naturalist as well as a soldier?’

The first novel in Robin Hobb’s newest trilogy Soldier Son. Reviews of the other two books will follow after I have read them.
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