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2k reviews for:

The Golden Fool

Robin Hobb

4.41 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

chemist365's review

4.75
adventurous dark emotional tense 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: Complicated

milkbytheglass's review

4.75
emotional 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
adventurous
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes

betweenpages's review

4.0
adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
reflective relaxing slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

themes of love and loss and fatherhood and friendship and it’s just so good. i love a good reluctant father archetype. 
adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Even though this book was mysterious and high stakes not much actually happened and the plot didn't move further that much. A little was progressed in the politics and Fitz changed the dynamics of the relationships he held but other than that nothing changed. 

The character work is so well done and the setups for the third book are truly wonderful! Loving every second of this trilogy!

martag's review

5.0
challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes