** spoiler alert ** 
 The last in the Farseer trilogy, Assassin's Quest dealt with tying up most of the loose ends that had built up from the first book - some through the story itself, most through the historical overviews written by an older Fitz at the beginning of each chapter. Whilst I felt this was a backwards way of filling in the questions readers no doubt would have been left with, by the third book I was personally just happy with any amount of closure, on anything. 
 The second book left Fitz hanging on the precipice of death, so the third starts up with the explanation of how there is a third book at all - using a mixture of Wit and luck, Fitz had spirited himself inside his wolf companion, only for his body to be dug up again later for him to be coaxed back into. Despite it only being a matter of days, Fitz takes months to recover properly from this, and don't worry... Hobbs ensures we feel it has indeed been months, with chapter upon chapter dealing with Fitz's every issue with fitting back into the human realm. The way Hobbs deals with consequences is admirable in the way a dentist pulling teeth in a way to be painful would be, and after what felt like the fifteenth time of Fitz being told off for snarling like a wolf I was tempted to put the book down there. 
 However, I continued on. The book rambled on itself and included many seemingly useless wastes of time meeting with characters who had no rhyme, reason, or obvious purpose to the plot. Eventually Fitz integrated with a caravan company that promised to be taking the story somewhere, but then our dependable protagonist took two steps back for daring to take one forward; the frustration of him constantly being held back from doing anything became as irritating as things working out perfectly at every turn for a Mary Sue. There is literally nothing in this book that Fitz does right, or any situation in which goes well for him, and despite the series being named after his apparent career as an assassin there was only two times he did anything that seemed anywhere near fitting of the title. I feel robbed! The book series included every trope going - a Royal bastard, political intrigues, a cast of varied characters, animal communication, limited magic, and then even dragons - but instead it turns into a series of the most missed literary opportunities I have read in a long time. I could also go on about the horrible cardboard cut-out villain that Regal ultimately turned into, but this review is already becoming long enough. 
 Also inter-dispersed through the book are depressing monologues on Fitz's lost love of Molly, who is revealed later in the book to have given birth to their child. Credit given where deserved, Hobbs perfectly captures the boring, repetitive cycle of self-doubt and hatred that many teenagers have about a doomed first love, and the ending of this particular sub-plot was hardly worth the time Hobbs spent writing about it at all. I would have felt cheated at this point, but luckily by the time the conclusion was reached I had long stopped caring. 
 It may seem like I very much disliked this book, and that's not altogether untrue. However, I give it two stars for it being coherent enough to have a beginning, middle, and an end, and for giving some measure of peace to a story that could have arguably been fit into one book without anyone missing the fluff inbetween. (The character of The Fool is also worth that one additional star) 
 This seems likely to please younger readers, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone above the 'young adult' section of the Fantasy genre.