Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb

18 reviews

roaming_enn's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Ah, Robin Hobb, you sociopathic author! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infertility, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage

luise96's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

Wow this was truly amazing. I feel like Robin Hobb just keeps on getting better with her writing. 
I could barely put this down at times. It is slow and sometimes not a lot happens, but I just know that every little detail builds up to something. 

I truly sometimes want to go inside the book and just shake Fitz for being so stupid. Like who wouldn’t recognize an extremely pale person as a messenger from the Fool?!
Oh and Molly! I never truly cared for her, but seeing her together with fits and caring for child so lovingly, that was considered „simple“ aka disabled. My heart broke, when she died so suddenly, but well it‘s Robin Hobb, it was to be expected. 
I am so curious to get the full mythology behind Bee. She is Fitz‘s and the Fool‘s child? And she has the Skill and the Wit?

Oh damn I am excited for the next book, but as the same time I am dreading the what will happen and dreading the end of this wonderful series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Blood, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Confinement and Torture

liekedevijfde's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

pulleamurmeli's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

errie's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Death, and Grief

briely's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.5

I’m an empty shell of a man right now

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Torture, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

johannaplatt's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad 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

Having two PoVs was a refreshing change from previous Farseer books! I can see how this book sets up the final trilogy nicely, there's a lot of "scene setting" and introduction of plots. Robin Hobb is an excellent writer - the character

Shun

made me want to scream with annoyance!

Molly's death was heartbreaking for both Fitz and Bee and I was thinking about it for days.

Ended on a cliffhanger and I am keen to see how the next books starts - straight continuation or time jump.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

mqabbadbest's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Torture, and Death of parent

jeninmotion's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

Gosh darn it, Robin Hobb. I had sworn you off and I didn't even hate the Rain Wilds books, I just didn't need more of FitzChivalry somehow not seeing the obvious for hundreds of pages while we're all like "wait a tick, this seems weird, maybe think about it, Fitz?"

...still finished this book in one day, like I did the first three trilogies. I used to stay up til 2 in the morning reading these books, even when I was like "why is 15% of your personality yelling 'no homo' while loving The Fool as much as ever, FitzChivalry?"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, and Torture

avidreadr's review

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

5.0

Just wow. This book had me glued, I read through the night, read all all all day. I was enthralled with how this story progressed, so unexpected a plot and so cozy and vivid a telling. I was actually there with all of these characters. Plus, LOVED Bee and seeing this side of Fitz. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death