Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Fool's Quest by Robin Hobb

7 reviews

johannaplatt's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.0

Pace was a little slower than Fool's Assassin and it could have perhaps used some tighter editing to help the story move along. I raced through the second half of the book as the plot was very compelling. Less POV from Bee in this one which I did miss. Another cliffhanger end leaving me wanting more!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Pedophilia, Death, Sexual assault, Torture, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Child death, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Pregnancy

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

Obsessed with the last third of the book, pulling all the previous books' characters and plots together, love it. The first part was a bit slow and sometimes Fitz was annoying but I still enjoyed the whole thing overall 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Sexual violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Torture, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Grief, Sexual assault, Gore, Death, Rape, Violence, Sexism, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Child death, and Animal death

Minor: Slavery

luna_lou13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Child abuse

nightstitch96's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

Moderate: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Animal death

Minor: Dementia

talonsontypewriters'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Child death, Grief, Death, Sexual violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Gore, Drug use, Murder, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Rape, Misogyny, Sexism, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Minor: Bullying, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Incest, Child abuse, Infertility, Ableism, Alcohol, Pedophilia, Slavery, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Transphobia, and Dementia

poisonenvy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

mausoleum's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

The novel contains well-handled, minor discussion of events of sexual assault and the aftermath of those events