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briely's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Rape, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, and Death
johannaplatt's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Rape, Violence, Pedophilia, Death, Sexual assault, Torture, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Child death, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Pregnancy
aseel_reads's review against another edition
- 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
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
luna_lou13's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Child abuse
nightstitch96's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture
Moderate: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Animal death
Minor: Dementia
talonsontypewriters's review against another edition
- 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
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
poisonenvy's review against another edition
- 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
Don't have much to say on top of my original review. This book has one of my favourite scenes in all the books. The inconsistency with the timeline of this last trilogy is beyond frustrating. This series has great re-readabilty for all the things that would've been missed the first time around. I still love it.
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This book was faster paced than Fool's Assassin, but that doesn't mean that it didn't remain a slow-paced book. This is not a criticism. Robin Hobb is a master at the slow-burn story mode. It's filled with a lot of considered character introspection and character growth.
Fitz has the incredible ability to both be one of my favourite characters in all of literature, and likewise the most maddeningly frustrating ones I've ever met. Perhaps because I see myself struggling with a lot of the things that Fitz struggles with, and it's beyond frustrating to see him take a step forward and then take another step backwards in the same way I always manage to.
Anyway, I love these books a lot. I can't believe I only have one left.
Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts
mausoleum's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault
The novel contains well-handled, minor discussion of events of sexual assault and the aftermath of those events