The release date for the English version of 'Assassin's Apprentice' by
Robin Hobb is Mar 1996. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
One little child will grow up to be a walking mystery in a far-off kingdom where members of the royal line are named for the values they exemplify.
Fitz, son of Chivalry Farseer, was born on the wrong side of the bed and is a royal bastard who was abandoned into a lonely and friendless world. He finds comfort and company alone via his enchanted connection with animals, the age-old craft known as the Wit. However, excessive use of Wit may be dangerous and is despised by the nobles.
Fitz must thus give up his old habits and embrace a new life of weapons, scribing, courtly etiquette, and how to assassinate a man covertly as he prepares to become a royal assassin after being ultimately adopted into the royal household.