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Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb

45 reviews

10stormlight's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pedophilia and Slavery

snd1101's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Rape

Moderate: Death and Violence

nadia's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-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

4.0

Overall, a decent end to the trilogy, but I was a teeny bit let down, given just how much I loved Ship of Magic. 

I finished The Mad Ship almost a year ago, so maybe I was a little out of touch with it all, so I struggled to piece together the politics and the motivations of all of the characters. 

I also felt like some character decisions did not make sense to me or were frustrating, and some character arcs were ended unsatisfactorily, especially those that I feel didn't get their just deserts...

Still, Hobb is an incredible storyteller, creating rich, complex, morally grey leading characters, and the way she weaves everything together is so masterful! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Minor: Slavery

nessavamusic's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Violence and Gaslighting

atalea's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Grief, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and War

Minor: Animal death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Abandonment, and Alcohol

bookshelfmonkey's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

4.0

Another great addition to Robin Hobb's "Realm of the Elderlings". I'm glad the character development finally came through.

8/10

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and Sexual harassment

pinup_and_pages's review against another edition

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

rtmn93's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Rape, Violence, and Gaslighting

raquelreadsalot's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Truly magnificent.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Violence

philineselavy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Violence