I'm disappointed. I loved Fool's Errand. And now this. It's a good thing I was reading an e-book version of the book. Otherwise I would have thrown it out of the window (and then I would have brought it back again...) I could hardly do this with my laptop but I was tempted... 
 It was very boring. Too much description, too little action. I've almost fallen asleep one evening and I found myself skipping through some pages. You definitely don't need so many pages to write the story of this book. 
 Second thing that annoyed me was all the talking about love, bedding etc. I got tired of it. I really liked Jinna. I didn't like the whole situation and "romance" with Fitz. And all the talk about Fool and Fitz...I got really bored with it. To me it wasn't that important but the topic kept coming back. I was angry with Fitz (and Robin Hobb) for that stupid quarrel. It removed the Fool and all we had was the Lord Golden. It was bad enough that the book lacked Nighteyes. Most of the time it also lacked Fool. It lacked action. I think the best thing I'm going to do is forget about it and read the next one. I hope it will be much better. 
 I love Robin Hobb's work but I presently don't like it very much;) Well I still gave the book 3 stars because there were some things I liked.