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Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb

20 reviews

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

ailurolily's review against another edition

adventurous tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Slavery and Sexual content

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, War, Kidnapping, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Abandonment, Drug use, Sexual content, Slavery, Trafficking, Xenophobia, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Domestic abuse, Torture, Alcohol, Body shaming, and Death of parent

Minor: Ableism, Suicide, Self harm, Infidelity, Excrement, and Pregnancy

Earthquakes and aftermath. Near-drowning. Nonconsensual drugging. Attempted rape, including of a teenager and a sleeping/drugged person. Victim blaming/rape culture. Relationships between teenagers and adults.

milkelves's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

2.0

justice for althea & serilla wtf was this ???  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Misogyny

divine529's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective tense 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

For those of you who don't know me, the Realm of the Elderlings (RotE) is a series that means everything to me. It's impossible to review something I love and adore as much as I do. Anything I say about this book won't encapsulate the overall feeling and story, so I'm not going to do my normal routine (fully).

This is the third and final book in the Liveship Traders trilogy and the sixth book in the overall RotE series and we continue to follow several characters, mostly from the same family (the Vestrits) with a few exceptions. This takes place in another part of the world - primarily Bingtown and we also get an added Rain Wild portion. As with the other books, it's full of feminism, pirates, dysfunctional families, political intrigue of a different kind than we had with Fitz and complex relationships of all kinds.

Every element I normally do in my breakdowns (writing, plot, characters and world building) is just phenomenal. Hobb's characters and world building in particular are some of the best I've read. It's not a simple act of reading these books, you live them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual harassment, Animal death, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Sexism, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Violence, Misogyny, Murder, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts

alexhaydon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Gore, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Death, War, Violence, and Body horror

Minor: Pedophilia

gladiolus17's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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

4.0

It’s hard for me to write an objective review because this book destroyed me!!! Hobb is the queen of character development. Every character came out of this series changed, for better or for worse.

I despised Malta in the beginning and truly thought there was nothing that could make me like this nasty little girl, but you know what? Her changed behavior made me like her and root for her.

I also loved the Liveships, both Paragon and Vivacia.

My heart broke when Paragon asked Amber to make him a face someone could love.

I also found Althea’s arc truly heartbreaking.

Abusers are loved by people. Their loved ones don’t want to believe they could do something that horrible. I felt the reactions around Althea were realistic, even though I wished everyone would believe her and turn on Kennit.

My main complaint was that I found Amber lacking as a character within this series. I have not read any other of Hobb’s books, so it made me feel her character within this series wasn’t fleshed out and her role not prominent. If she had a bigger part, I would’ve liked her character more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Rape, and Sexual assault

ferouz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

This was the best book of the Liveship Traders Trilogy. This series has not been my favourite of the Elderling Realms to be honest. The first two were a disappointed but this last back was incredible...until halfway through. The last 50% were difficult to read for various reasons (themes, events, etc...). I do understand some of the choice the author has made for characters arcs yet I wished it would have been dealt in a different way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

clemencepct's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual harassment, Pedophilia, and Physical abuse

eleni_elisa's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual harassment