EBOOK Ship of Magic

Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveshipsrare 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 Vivacia.  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 Vivacia is a life sentence. But the fate of the shipand the Vestritsmay 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. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Robin Hobb&'s Mad Ship. Praise for Robin Hobb and the Liveship Traders Trilogy &';Fantasy as it ought to be written . . . Robin Hobb&'s books are diamonds in a sea of zircons.&'George R. R. Martin  &';A truly extraordinary saga . . . The characterizations are consistently superb, and [Hobb] animates everything with love for and knowledge of the sea.&'Booklist &';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.&'Publishers Weekly &';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.&'Interzone