I forgot to mention that I finished Fool’s Fate while I was gone. I can see what Ginger means when she says that she’s not quite fine with the end of Fitz’s story. I was impressed at the skill (no pun) with which story elements from three trilogies were wrapped up in general, however. It’s not a completely happy ending; there was loss, things weren’t too easy, and Robin Hobb deliberately didn’t take everything away from any of the protagonists, nor reward them completely. In the end, it just might have been the only way to end it, really.