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Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb

10 reviews

mqabbadbest's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing 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

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talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

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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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emilybarbian's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

5.0

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clemencepct's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.75

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mariebrunelm's review against another edition

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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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