I have to say, that these books are some of the best I've ever read. I'm very surprised that barely anyone has ever heard of the authoress. She's brilliant. She also writes under the name Meghan Lindholm, so maybe that will ring a few bells.
Anyway, the books are fantasy but so realistic that you suddenly find yourself looking up, wide eyed from your page, surprised to find that you are actually still sitting in your living room and not flyng around on an elderling, sailing the seas in a liveship with a talking figure-head or traveling the Six Duchies with your bond-wolf Nighteyes.
I highly recomend them. She's coming out with a new trilogy now that continues the Farseer and I'm excited beyond belief! Actually I've already read the first and *gasp*!!!
~Rosie