Reviews with content warning for Rape - Fool's Quest

SECOND READTHROUGH, six months after the first.

Don't have much to say on top of my original review. This book has one of my favourite scenes in all the books. The inconsistency with the timeline of this last trilogy is beyond frustrating. This series has great re-readabilty for all the things that would've been missed the first time around. I still love it.

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This book was faster paced than Fool's Assassin, but that doesn't mean that it didn't remain a slow-paced book. This is not a criticism. Robin Hobb is a master at the slow-burn story mode. It's filled with a lot of considered character introspection and character growth.

Fitz has the incredible ability to both be one of my favourite characters in all of literature, and likewise the most maddeningly frustrating ones I've ever met. Perhaps because I see myself struggling with a lot of the things that Fitz struggles with, and it's beyond frustrating to see him take a step forward and then take another step backwards in the same way I always manage to.

Anyway, I love these books a lot. I can't believe I only have one left.

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alexhaydon's review

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4.0

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mariebrunelm's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

How much pain & heartbreak can someone endure? This is one of the darkest books in Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings universe. Fool's Fate is the second volume in The Fitz and the Fool Trilogy, the last trilogy if you read all of them chronologically, and in this she ties together many, many strands weaved over the course of her other trilogies. I won't spoil you with the specifics of this novel. I will just tell you that when you think Fitz could not be worse, Hobb finds a way to hurt him a little bit more. But it's not about grand events or heroism. This is an aged man riddles with regrets and trying to repair the harm he may or may not have done. As with Hobb's other books it can be agonizingly slow, and yet it would be disrespectful to Fitz to hurry in the telling of his tale of woes.
Rep : gender fluid / non-binary characters

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