Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb

7 reviews

briely's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Cried a lot. First half was incredibly difficult to read for all the dread it put in me, had to actually stop and take several breaks from reading like I hadn’t with all the others. Mostly I am just so sad this long, long journey is at an end. I’m going to miss these characters terribly. Would that I could better articulate how I feel about it right now, but currently I’m just an emotional wreck so that’s that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Gore, and Kidnapping

Minor: Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, and Slavery

nightstitch96's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Death, Child abuse, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Rape, and Slavery

Minor: Animal cruelty, Bullying, and Pregnancy

noodletheriddle's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Torture, Murder, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Rape

Moderate: Pregnancy and Adult/minor relationship

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

5.0

what if we all blew up

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Torture, Terminal illness, Body horror, Gore, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Confinement

Moderate: Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, Child death, Sexual assault, Rape, Classism, Misogyny, Alcohol, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Ableism

Minor: Pregnancy, Vomit, Cannibalism, Animal cruelty, Suicide, Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Bullying, and Infidelity

catrionamayj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.25

I really struggle to define how I relate to Hobb's works. 
Having read 16 of them (totaling well over 4 million words I believe) I obviously found them well worth the read. However I do find her style often directionless and meandering, I get the sense she writes through discovery without going through and doing the editing needed to make these tighter stories. 

How many times must we read about Bee trying to escape, failing and being beaten. How many times do we need to watch Fitz try and convince the rest of the gang to turn back

I feel the repetition of certain plot elements just lead to my frustration without moving the story or the character development forward at all. 
But also there was so much in this book to love, so many characters and settings I've been wanting to see either again or for the first time. All in all it was a very fitting conclusion to the RoTE series but I just couldn't love it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Animal death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Blood, Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

endymionshawk's review

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Gore

Minor: Torture, Physical abuse, and Sexual violence

bobkit's review

adventurous emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Slavery

Minor: Violence