Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb

13 reviews

briely's review

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I’m an empty shell of a man right now

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Grief, Torture, Death, Death of parent, Murder, and Bullying

Minor: Kidnapping, Child death, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts

johannaplatt's review

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Having two PoVs was a refreshing change from previous Farseer books! I can see how this book sets up the final trilogy nicely, there's a lot of "scene setting" and introduction of plots. Robin Hobb is an excellent writer - the character

Shun

made me want to scream with annoyance!

Molly's death was heartbreaking for both Fitz and Bee and I was thinking about it for days.

Ended on a cliffhanger and I am keen to see how the next books starts - straight continuation or time jump.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Death, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

mqabbadbest's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Animal death, Torture, and Death of parent

jeninmotion's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Gosh darn it, Robin Hobb. I had sworn you off and I didn't even hate the Rain Wilds books, I just didn't need more of FitzChivalry somehow not seeing the obvious for hundreds of pages while we're all like "wait a tick, this seems weird, maybe think about it, Fitz?"

...still finished this book in one day, like I did the first three trilogies. I used to stay up til 2 in the morning reading these books, even when I was like "why is 15% of your personality yelling 'no homo' while loving The Fool as much as ever, FitzChivalry?"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Torture, and Death

avidreadr's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Just wow. This book had me glued, I read through the night, read all all all day. I was enthralled with how this story progressed, so unexpected a plot and so cozy and vivid a telling. I was actually there with all of these characters. Plus, LOVED Bee and seeing this side of Fitz. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

aseel_reads's review

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This started off super slow, but by page 200, I just devoured it and omg the second half plot??? Freaking wild and stressful, I just want to go home and pick up book 2. Also totally reading Bee as autistic coded 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Animal death, Death, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Blood, Alcohol, Body horror, Bullying, Dementia, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Death of parent, and Murder

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Animal death, Grief, Bullying, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Pregnancy, Classism, Gore, Ableism, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Physical abuse, Child abuse, Miscarriage, Child death, Sexual content, Infertility, Infidelity, Alcohol, and Rape

ingvirei's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, and Death

clemencepct's review against another edition

mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, and Bullying

nightstitch96's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Grief, and Animal cruelty