Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

267 reviews

krysley'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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

witchvial'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

indigo_fox's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.75

 I didn't expect to like this story as much as I did in the end. At first I found the writing boring but at some point I was captivated. Hobb built a fascinating world and I loved learning about it as I read. I loved seeing the bonds between the characters and how those changed over time. I still have some questions but maybe those will be answered in the next book?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infertility and Infidelity

ashintheashes's review against another edition

 The dog dies. And I wasn't even invested in the story yet. Just liked this dang dog. and then they freaking killed it. So. bye. dnf 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

ritzee13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Abandonment, and War

loriley's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

This book is extremely slow.
The development of the political intrigue story, the world building, and the magic in this world are all phenomenal.
Plot movement is a little light

The life story of the main character is oppressively bleak. There is so little love, affection, or joy in the main character’s life, to the point where it gets hard to read.
I feel like this is the set up for a really good story, but on its own, it is not a satisfying, full story. However, since the set up is so good, I do plan on reading the series and I hope to get some satisfying conclusions later.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Grief

Minor: Slavery, Torture, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, and War

tempus_edax_rerum's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

3.0

Finally, a first in a series with a complete plot with some (a lot) loose ends to tie in later in the series. It did feel like a complete story in and on itself, which i aopreciate. 
I did like the characters even though i couldn't relate all of the time. 
World building is very not in your face, which felt very organic to me as a reader. 
The plot itself felt a little all over the place, also,

from the title and the blurb i expected the assasin's trainings arc to be a main point in the story, and it wasn't. To me, it was a coming of age story first with some low detailed training

All in all, a solid first in a series, will continue reading and look forward to, hopefully, more interactions with the fool and more details on the magic system and the politics.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

3.0

I tried reading this book multiple times and put it down when I was uncertain how I felt about how it was progressing.  I’m glad that this time I persevered because it is a very engaging start to a story that lays a lot of groundwork for a tale that I think I’d like to follow.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

tieflingkisser's review against another edition

dark

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Death of parent

ruark's review against another edition

Dog dies

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death