#actually ok verity/kettriken was good that was fine

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Actually to be fair a lot of the romance in these books drives me up a wall but I really do like Althea and Brashen. They've developed so much from where they started at the beginning of book 1 where Althea was sort of ambivalent or mildly irritated with Brashen and he liked her well enough but primarily saw her as the Captain's daughter, to now having this strong friendship and mutual respect based on actual shared interests and goals, which is also just fraught with tension bc they both clearly have feelings but are unable to completely accept them bc of social pressures and their own character traits and very personal baggage surrounding being in a relationship. It's good!!!

#im extremely on the fence abt how well robin hobb writes romance lmao #bc on one hand this series does pining so goddamn well #but otoh fitz/molly is agonizingly drawn out and bland at times #and burrich/molly is like;;;;absolutely incomprehensible as to why she made that choice #and then shes like well fitz and the fool are obviously just very good friends even tho the fool is in love with him #and writes the most aggressively romantic scenes between them i have ever seen which she never gives to any of her canon pairings #actually ok verity/kettriken was good that was fine #my judgement on malta/reyn is like. pending lol i havent decided yet they both behave very young so idk how itll work out #but its several times more bearable as a young love romance tham fitz/molly #also i cant for my life figure out why she wrote reyn to be canonically late teens early 20s when he behaves like hes a solid 15 max #he READS like hes definitely maltas peer age-wise and then the text is like 'and he was this much older than her' and im like o.O what #this tags section has been dana ranks ships thank you and have a good night hkshdhs #the liveship traders #realm of the elderlings