Malta appeals to Reyn Khuprus to help save her father, but he has his own problems. Ronica, Keffria, Althea, and Malta decide to put aside their differences to work on rescuing the ship. He returns to Bingtown to inform the Vestrit family. Althea returns to her family to attempt to repair their relationship.īrashen, serving with a pirate ship, learns in Divvytown that Kennit has captured Vivacia. This heightens political tensions in Bingtown as more of the Old Traders consider rebelling against the Satrap and his Chalcedean mercenaries. Captain Tenira attempts to resist the Chalcedean galley that serves the Satrap and collects his taxes. Kennit was taken prisoner as a child by Igrot the pirate, who killed Kennit's father, cut out his mother's tongue, and made Kennit a pirate and abused him, a past which he hides from all.Īlthea serves aboard the liveship Ophelia, which returns to Bingtown. Kennit imprisons Kyle on the secret isle where his mother lives in seclusion. Wintrow is wary of Vivacia's growing attachment to Kennit, but comes to believe in him as well, and bonds with Etta. Kennit quickly charms Vivacia and she comes to believe in Kennit and his goal of becoming King of the Pirate Isles, aiding him in his piracy against slavers. It appeared in the United States as simply Mad Ship.Īboard Vivacia, Wintrow saves Kennit's life by amputating the infected part of his leg. "Imaginative and compelling.The Mad Ship is a book by American writer Robin Hobb, the second in her Liveship Traders Trilogy.
Althea and her onetime sea mate Brashen resolve to liberate the liveship-but their plan may prove more dangerous than leaving the Vivacia in Kennit's ambitious grasp.
And Althea Vestrit waits even more avidly, living only to reclaim the ship as her lost inheritance and captain her on the high seas.īut the Vivacia has been seized by the ruthless pirate captain Kennit, who holds Althea's nephew and his father hostage. reads like a cross between Tolkien and Patrick O'Brian."- Publishers WeeklyĪs the ancient tradition of Bingtown's Old Traders slowly erodes under the cold new order of a corrupt ruler, the Vestrits anxiously await the return of their liveship-a rare magic ship carved from sentient wizardwood, which bonds the ships mystically with those who sail them. The second novel in Robin Hobb's beloved Liveship Traders Trilogy
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