Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb

8 reviews

johannaplatt's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.5

Gorgeous end to this trilogy. Robin Hobb is a master of the realistic ending - sometimes your love is lost, your friends and family have passed, and that is the way it needs to be. The political intrigue kept me engaged and the action was paced well. Delighted to find out there is another trilogy that I have not read yet!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Violence, Animal death, and Grief

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.25

The ending was a bit drawn out but I loved the final final ending, so wholesome. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Murder, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Grief, and Animal death

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.5

God. Probably the hardest RotE book to rate so far -- I loved the majority of it, and sobbed all through at least two chapters, but I have so many qualms with the ending (cathartic as it is to see Fitz finally truly at peace, it really doesn't feel believable or satisfactory for

him and Molly to get back together, let alone so soon; it just seems like too much time has passed for them to fall so easily back into it, especially with the recency of Burrich's death, and I have to wonder if whatever feelings persist are just love for the idea of what used to be, not the current reality, especially given how... tepid it feels compared to the literally fate-altering devotion in those chapters I cried over

) and enough discontent with how Thick is written (by far more nuanced and respectful than I would have expected of a character with Down syndrome, as he seems pretty objectively coded as, written in the early 2000s -- or perhaps even today -- but not without issues) that it's hard to reconcile those feelings. I'd feel remiss to pass either over for the other, so I'll lean closer to what I felt for probably the greater 90%, but I admit the conclusion does leave a bit to be desired.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Ableism, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Abandonment, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Vomit

Minor: Alcohol, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Rape, Sexual content, Infertility, Alcoholism, Incest, Pregnancy, Self harm, and Cannibalism

tracybach's review against another edition

reflective relaxing slow-paced

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

4.0

Slow book with lots of repetition as seems to be the style of this author, not as repetitive as some of their earlier works. Enjoyable for listening to while crafting. Plot follows Fitz through character development as an adult. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Ableism, Blood, Torture, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Alcohol, and Murder

kirstym25's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Ableism

Minor: Drug abuse

mariebrunelm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective 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

I realised in the last chapters of this book that it was the first time I re-read it since being emotionally destroyed by the following trilogy, Fitz & the Fool. And I realised how much of it was hinted in this book, though it was published years before and Hobb wrote a whole quadrilogy in the meantime. I won't spoil any of these books, but I want to highlight the fact that yes, Hobb's novels are a delight to read (though you're at a risk of being emotionally destroyed), but they're also a delight to re-read. Even though they're not packed with action (the first half of Fool's Fate is agonisingly slow), they're masterpieces of character writing. In the last pages of Fool's Fate, which ends the Tawny Man Trilogy, I started mourning the characters. And now that I've finished it, I'm both relieved their hardships are over and have found a measure of solace (though I'm still a bit angry at that ending), and relieved that I'm done with their pain. So. Much. Pain. And yet, so much beauty.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Torture, and Suicidal thoughts

anaguana's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Torture, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol and Sexual content

Minor: Animal death

tashayns's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

• 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: Death, Grief, Torture, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Animal death, Mental illness, Confinement, and Violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Dementia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Homophobia, Rape, Slavery, Blood, and Vomit