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Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb

41 reviews

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

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

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

exuberantlybuds's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Miscarriage

ulyssies's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Violence, Death, Gore, Murder, Torture, and Bullying

Minor: Rape and Sexual violence

dreadfulsorryclementine's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and War

Minor: Sexual violence

angstifies's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

very slow book, especially at the beginning, but i enjoyed it anyway. Robin Hobb’s characters are so wonderfully written and the dynamics we got to see in this third book were even better crafted than in the previous installments. i absolutely loved the “quest” element that was very dominant in the story, and i found the ending flawless. i will absolutely be reading the other RotE books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Grief, Miscarriage, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, and War

Minor: Addiction and Pregnancy

atalea's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Death, Drug use, and Pregnancy

Minor: Torture, Rape, Miscarriage, and Infertility

ofthebrownajah's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, War, and Torture

Moderate: Rape and Violence

errie's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

nico_asteri's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Wow. I really loved this whole trilogy but it was a challenging read. Fitz never really catches a break and even though it all makes sense in the story, it's hard to see him face betrayal after betrayal, and lose so much. After I finished, my first thought was "that was one of the best series that I will never ever read again". However I will say the books are worth reading. Fitz is an interesting character and he's very consistent in his behavior. I think my favorite character aside from Fitz is probably Nighteyes or the Fool. I saw there were more books that follow the Fool and I definitely plan on reading those someday (once I emotionally recover from reading this series).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Torture

Minor: Rape

There is a part where a character's body is taken by the Skill and used to impregnate another character. This is technically done willingly and with everyone's knowledge/consent but also the character that is taken over does not have much of a choice so it's not what I'd call enthusiastic consent. The description isn't graphic but the character is clearly bothered by his body being used in this way so while it's maybe not quite rape, it could be troubling for anyone sensitive to that kind of content.

tayanapier'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

3.75

This book was good but also not great.  The beginning of the novel starts straight away after the events of books 2 ending and it’s a great start to the novel. Fits is going through ALOT. However the rest of the novel (like 500 pages) is of him on a journey and there is not much destination happening. And THEN for the last 100 pages we finally get some actual action and magic but the ending is over very quickly. The final ‘battle’ is very short and not very detailed. Also why does every new female chapter Hobb introduces want to sleep with Fitz. they were not the most well written characters, especially after how brilliantly written Krettian and Lady Patience are in the novels (would have loved to see more of their journey in the novel as they are bad bitched that don’t mess around). 
HOWEVER, saying all of that what we did get of the magic of the world was very interesting. The relationship Fitz has with Nighteyes and the Fool, chefs kiss. Would literally die for those two. The dynamic that these 3 characters had with each was definitely one of the most enjoyable parts of this book. 
Overall this I think was the weakest novel in the trilogy in regard to plot, the writing and pros however is definitely the strongest out of the three. 
I would still definitely recommend this series as it is mostly very enjoyable and i think sets up the stage for the following novels in the world. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death, and Violence