Reviews with content warning for Adult/minor relationship - Ship of Destiny

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The conclsuion to the Liveship Traders left me overly not very satisfied.

My trilogy rating as a whole is 3.75:
I think we started off good in the first book and I was scared at first after absoutely adoring the Farseer trilogy but as I got more in the book, I got the hang of the characters, the plot was being laid out etc.
The second book completely gripped me, It had action and the characters felt more distinguished. I had really high hope for the way it would end and that just fell short for me, yes it pulls at my heart strings and I got emotional over some story lines but it just didn't feel completed at the end. I expected stronger endings for some characters and the punishment for the big bad just didn't do it for me. It was like watching Cersei die a good death all over again.

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cossty's review against another edition

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adventurous 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

Pedophilia from the previous book of course continues in Ship of Destiny, and it is topped with plans for a wedding at the end.

This book has another rape scene, which was completely unnecessary, in my opinion. I'm a guy that shies away from books with sexual assault and rape. Of course, I read some, but rape in those usually happens off-screen or to unnamed people.

I was listening to the audiobook and this scene got me hard. Listening to the voice actress how Althea was drugged, how Kennit deceived her and gaslighted her. How she couldn't see anything, only feel how she was being undressed, and how she didn't know what was happening. This scene was from her POV, and it was gut-wrenching to listen to her thought process. Then she tried to fight, but she was so weak from the drug, that it didn't matter. I had tears in my eyes during this scene. Now, when I think about it, I don't think I actually read such a graphic rape scene ever.

What I'm mad about is that I feel like this scene was completely unnecessary for the story and was there only for the wow factor. The story could easily continue as it did, with her not being raped. Kennit destroyed Paragon with his crew, that should be enough for Althea to be mad at him and wanting to kill him.

What makes me even angrier is that nobody believed her that she was raped. Especially Vivacia and Wintrow. Vivacia never believed her, and Wintrow... I completely lost respect for that clown. He knew that she was raped, and he still worshiped Kennit and grovelled at his feet even after Kennit's death. I'm so mad that Kennit got a happy ending.

At the end, Paragon actually took her pain away, while leaving her only some distant memory that it happened. I'm not saying that she should be constantly in bed crying, but this feels like another trivialization of her situation.

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mythmakers's review

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adventurous dark 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

5.0

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tori_mccausland's review

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adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense 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

4.25

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kaziaroo's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.25

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noodletheriddle's review against another edition

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adventurous slow-paced

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

4.25

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divine529's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional reflective 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

For those of you who don't know me, the Realm of the Elderlings (RotE) is a series that means everything to me. It's impossible to review something I love and adore as much as I do. Anything I say about this book won't encapsulate the overall feeling and story, so I'm not going to do my normal routine (fully).

This is the third and final book in the Liveship Traders trilogy and the sixth book in the overall RotE series and we continue to follow several characters, mostly from the same family (the Vestrits) with a few exceptions. This takes place in another part of the world - primarily Bingtown and we also get an added Rain Wild portion. As with the other books, it's full of feminism, pirates, dysfunctional families, political intrigue of a different kind than we had with Fitz and complex relationships of all kinds.

Every element I normally do in my breakdowns (writing, plot, characters and world building) is just phenomenal. Hobb's characters and world building in particular are some of the best I've read. It's not a simple act of reading these books, you live them.

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