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Fool's Quest by Robin Hobb

5 reviews

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

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

mariebrunelm's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gaslighting, Torture, and Drug use

Moderate: Rape and Sexual harassment

kabrahams's review against another edition

5.0

This review may be a bit incoherent because I loved it too much to have coherent thoughts about it and I stayed up way too late to finish it...

"Fool's Quest" mainly follows Fitz's realization of what happened at Withywoods while he was away and his search first to find Bee and then to avenge her after she is supposedly lost in the Skill Pilars. He is constantly torn between duty (especially now that he is regarded as a prince) and love, between helping the Fool and helping Bee. Other side characters include the faithful stable boy Perserverence, the wily servant Ash/Spark, and of course the ever-scheming Chade and his spoiled illegitimate children, Shun/Shine and Lant. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Animal death, and Death