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Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb

64 reviews

allyordyna's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

4.0

What on earth just happened—

Molly got with Barage?? He’s Fitz’s father figure and could be Molly’s father; I can’t TT
Verity turns into a dragon and leaves his dear wife to run the kingdom on her own, after all she did to find him? Tragic. I was as weirded out as Fitz was when Verity uses his body to get Ketrikan pregnant.
Fitz has no happy ending, and I think that’s what upsets me the most. We’ve followed his self-sacrificial butt across 3 books and like 60 hours-worth of reading and he’s left alone in the final chapter, with no fool, no Molly, no Barage, no Nettle, no Chade, just his wolf and some kid that gets dumped on him… and his broken and scarred body.

I don’t even know what to think of that last chapter. I didn’t expect it all to wrap up so quickly, I suppose. Once again I am left wanting for more like an unquenched thirst. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Miscarriage, and Violence

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Infertility, Rape, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Abortion

josiah17's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.75

Edit 4/26/24: Down to a 3.75

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Good conclusion to the trilogy. The traveling becomes a bit tiring and monotonous in the back half of the novel, but many great character moments and interactions compensate for that. Nighteyes and the Fool being the particular standouts. Especially the Fool who I really came to love with this book, and I understand why he's so beloved. I'm excited to see how his relationship with Fitz develops in the rest of the series. 

My main gripe is really the pacing and the extension of the traveling. Hobb seems to really struggle with dragging at certain points in her books. But the plot was far more focused out of the three books which I appreciated.

Altogether this is probably my favorite of the Farseer trilogy, and I'm now fairly excited to continue reading Realm of The Elderlings. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Rape

thebowandthebook's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Miscarriage, Rape, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

alyxbeau's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

Holy crap was this a long one. While I didnt enjoy the first two overmuch, this book I did, especially towards the end of the first quarter. Im glad I didnt give up reading the series as the conclusion was what I was hoping for! I am intrigued by the idea of continuing the other series, but wary about their length. It's a bit overwhelming to consider how many books there are to work through, though they seem readily available as audiobooks (or these were through my library at least) 
The simplest way for me to review this is to say I do not particularly enjoy Robin Hobb's writing, but I do like her mind for stories. Typically her style is just too drawn out for me and slow paced. If not for that, I think I would enjoy this series as a whole much much more.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape

beautifulminutiae's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape and Sexual content

maithaalfalasi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Infertility, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual content, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Alcohol, War, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Child death, Homophobia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Vomit, Abortion, and Death of parent

lukegreed's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Rape, Grief, and Gaslighting

agedmordorblue's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

I think I forgot how well written this book was, or I just understood it better having grown up a bit since then. In any case I don't recall being so viscerally shaken by the complete breakdown of Fitz over the course of these books. His development later in the books makes more sense to me again as well. I also realises again how much I appreciate that Hobb doesn't go for the "humankind is perverted and looting, rape, and murder is what it does best" kind of realism, but a much more nuanced version that is not less powerful in describing tragedy.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Rape

beyourbestshelf's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Torture

Minor: Miscarriage, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail