Wow!  Am I SO GLAD I decided to continue on with this series!!  I found Assassin's Apprentice okay/pretty good.  I loved the prose and the storytelling.  I really didn't grab hold of the characters emotionally until Royal Assassin.  The pacing felt pretty slow.  Then I continued on with Royal Assassin this month due to the gushing and love of friends.

Royal Assassin definitely kicks it up a notch.  There's intrigue, magic, twists, and cliffhangers!! The pacing seems to be a bit faster....or maybe it's just because more things seem to happen within Buckkeep; The Fool plays a bigger role and I LOVE HIM!  Fools/Wit and Wizards seem to be my favorite characters in fantasy lately! 

I'm so excited to continue the trilogy on into the following series.