Liveship Trilogy

The Liveship Trilogy series is a wonderful series of fantasy novels written by a renowned American writer named Robin Hobb. It is comprised of a total 3 books, which were released between the years 1998 and 2000. Author Hobb has described the series as revolving around the lives of the Trader families in the fictional town of Bingtown. The plots of all the books generally take place in Bingtown, Pirate Isles, and Jamaillia, located near the southern coast of the Six Duchies. It is shown that trade is the lifeblood of the people of Bingtown, but it gets interrupted because of the ongoing war in Northern region. The war causes the Liveship Traders to fall on difficult times despite having magic-sentient ships. A Liveship is mainly constructed from a special type of magical wood and its possession guarantees prosperity to a Trader’s family at one time. None of the ships other than a Liveship is capable of crossing the dangerous route of the Rain Wild River, and trading with the legendary traders of the Rain Wild.