Fitz spends very little time assassinating people. If ever there were a book that actually suffered from that much-talked-about “middle book syndrome”, Royal Assassin would be a good candidate. I am struggling, however, to find something to say that rises above such plot summary. Oh, and his King is feeble and bed-ridden, his mind a cloudy, fogged place and kept so by the drugs his manservant feeds him. He is hopelessly in love with Molly, once a chandler and now temporarily a maid in Buckkeep. Fitz really doesn’t have much going for him: his King-in-Waiting is becoming addicted to Skilling and then goes off on a mad quest for the mythical Elderlings, hoping they can help out against the Redships. The entire book is a chronicle of the decline of a kingdom under attack from both terrible external foes (the Redship Raiders) even as it is being consumed from within by an ambitious prince.
So he waits, and bides his time, a strategy that seldom leads to good things.
He yearns to take matters into his own hands, except that this would make him as bad as his enemies. FitzChivalry Farseer watches the Kingdom of the Six Duchies fall apart before his eyes-yet his field of possible actions is highly constrained. Most of the time you might hardly notice it-but when you fall in love with someone below your station, or when the monarch begins fading and his unscrupulous youngest son sets his eyes on the throne, suddenly this loss of volition is a big deal. One of the difficulties of pledging allegiance to a sovereign monarch is that whole loss of individual volition.
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