Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb

21 reviews

beyourbestshelf's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Murder, and Miscarriage

Minor: Pregnancy, Death, Torture, Infertility, and Blood

tmickey's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring sad tense 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: Addiction, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Child death, Drug use, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Pregnancy and Miscarriage

booksthatburn's review against another edition

I remember liking this in high school but I think my tastes have changed significantly since then. There's a lot of ableism (internal and external) as Fitz navigates the new state of his body after the events of last book. I don't like how his early epiphany about how his body still can do things amounts to "at least I'm disabled, not elderly", which is extremely frustrating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Chronic illness

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Alcohol, Rape, War, Child death, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Blood, Death, Sexual content, Confinement, Medical content, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Infidelity, Pregnancy, Animal death, Xenophobia, and Alcoholism

angstifies's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

4.75

reading this book feels like reading a really messed up diary written by my poor boy Fitz who’s slowly realizing how shitty everyone actually treats him and he should, in fact, stop being so nice and helpful all the time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Child death, Murder, Sexual content, Confinement, Medical content, Miscarriage, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood, Pregnancy, War, Ableism, and Vomit

atalea's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Animal death, Physical abuse, and Alcoholism

Minor: Addiction, Cannibalism, Confinement, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Drug abuse, Torture, and Suicide attempt

kaziaroo's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Death, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Murder, Mental illness, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Blood, Animal death, Violence, Torture, Animal cruelty, Panic attacks/disorders, and Addiction

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

Minor: Infertility

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Pregnancy and Rape

grets_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Confinement, War, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Cancer, Addiction, and Blood

Minor: Slavery, Sexual content, Rape, and Xenophobia

prairieraven's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

I didn't enjoy this as much as the first book. The treachery, plotting, and kniving nature of the antagonist grates at the reader and the main characters which is for good writing. Again not very diverse cast and there is a bit of a slow start but quickly speeds up. 

There is a new wolf character introduced and I'm not too much of a fan. It doesn't fit as well as Fitz. However the purpose and reasoning of this character unfolds later in the book. There is much more violence and gore in this one than the first.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Torture, Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Vomit, War, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Drug use, Drug abuse, Dementia, Death of parent, Death, Confinement, Chronic illness, Cannibalism, Bullying, Blood, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Addiction, Abortion, and Abandonment

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Miscarriage, and Sexual content

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts