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Ship of Destiny

Robin Hobb

4.41 AVERAGE

maeenads's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous challenging dark 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

ladydinkle's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

paleflyer's review against another edition

5.0

... Paragon is the Fitz!

helenjenks's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark 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

geochamp's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious tense 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

lisa_pilates's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense

tansytaseis's review against another edition

5.0

Ships and pirates and sentient objects. All things I historically have just not cared about in any capacity nor happily sought out stories of, and yet Robin Hobb managed to make me care for this story far more than I eve expected to.

I liked the direction and the ending of the book; it came together well, without, to me, feeling rushed, and tying up the plot points I was worried about being loose. I have only a few small complaints; the habit that appeared in this last book of switching POVS mid paragraph, for one, but it happened rarely enough that it could be ignored.

I did also find the relationship between Malta and Reyn kind of strange to navigate -- i think it could have really benefited to remove the frankly uncomfortable dynamic by making Reyn canonically younger, as he truly did act and read like a teenager anyway, & the constant focus on Malta's 'smallness' in the narration was also quite disconcerting; obviously she is small, she is 14.

Nonetheless, brought out enough emotions for me that it's 5 stars.