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Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb

13 reviews

irbix13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Rape, Drug use, and Gore

Minor: Pedophilia

errie's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Murder, Child abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Confinement, Stalking, Violence, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, War, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Grief, Animal death, Sexual harassment, Animal cruelty, Torture, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

melt27's review

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious medium-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

4.25

So many loose ends were tied together so well. And such stunning character development throughout the series. Extremely well done 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Murder, Slavery, Blood, and Death

pinup_and_pages's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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

This book was my favourite out of the series. But on a whole the series itself is now one of my top. The characters in this are complicated and realistic, they make mistakes and it's easy to see where they went wrong. I loved the premise of this series, the soft magic systems and the reveals were shocking as well as intricate. This is my first few books I have picked up by Robin Hobb and she is definitely now one of my favourite authors. I definitely plan on reading more and will even pick this beast of a series back up one day. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Rape, Torture, Violence, War, Slavery, Sexual harassment, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Cancer, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Death, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Addiction

elaineharlington's review

adventurous challenging 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, War, Murder, Vomit, and Suicide

readwithbells's review against another edition

5.0

I expected nothing less than perfection from a trilogy ending book from Hobb and I got it. Even better, it feels like the end of a season of a show but also a promise that we will see these characters again. And wow do I ever love these characters. I was consistently struck with how, even when switching between 10 different people with cliffhanger after cliffhanger, I was never disappointed to be reading the next perspective in the line. I liked every character. Learning to love Malta has been the craziest journey I’ve been on with a character, her selfishness in the first book was almost enough to stop reading but she became one of my absolute favourites.

As a whole, this trilogy is about trauma and the cycles of abuse. Every character experiences trauma and deals with it in their own way, learning to find their individuality in spite of what they have endured. They’re pretty bleak and deal really nonchalantly with death, rape, and torture. It shocked me in the first book and it shocked me in the third. Hobb has a real mastery of including real-life horrors with the casualness of the brutality of real life. It’s hard to read, and some endings were shockingly bittersweet. But these books are worth reading (as much as I love Fitz, I love all these characters almost as much and am so glad I took the time to read their stories). I can’t wait for the next ones. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, and Sexism

Moderate: Torture, Vomit, Classism, Slavery, Pedophilia, and Drug abuse

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

lia_kim's review

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense slow-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

4.5

I kind of liked Kennit until this book, his raping of Althea was just unforgivable. As for Malta I loved her character progression in this book, she grew from a detestable spoiled brat to a responsible women throughout the 3 books. In this book I liked Winstrow less than I had the previous two books, his excusing of the entire rape situation was just blood-boiling to read. Another complaint I have with the book is the pairing of Althea and Brashen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Kidnapping, Murder, and Sexual assault

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, War, Kidnapping, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Abandonment, Drug use, Sexual content, Slavery, Trafficking, Xenophobia, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Domestic abuse, Torture, Alcohol, Body shaming, and Death of parent

Minor: Ableism, Suicide, Self harm, Infidelity, Excrement, and Pregnancy

Earthquakes and aftermath. Near-drowning. Nonconsensual drugging. Attempted rape, including of a teenager and a sleeping/drugged person. Victim blaming/rape culture. Relationships between teenagers and adults.

kaziaroo's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, War, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Drug use, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Vomit, and Confinement

Minor: Ableism and Child abuse

divine529's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual harassment, Animal death, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Sexism, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Violence, Misogyny, Murder, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts