Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

31 reviews

zombie_loves_books's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I finally started reading this series with a group and what a great start to a series! I ate this book up. The beginning was a little slow but necessary. I loved learning about the world through the eyes and growth of a child. It made finding out about the culture and ways of the world feel natural and not forced. Once I got to the last quarter I couldn't not put it down. There where moments where I couldn't breath it was a such roller-coaster.

Sorry to the group but I can't wait to start the next book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Infertility, and Suicide attempt

plantbaybe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

sethryals's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Murder

alpal2020's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful 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? No

3.75

Good audio book!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt

sh3lfcar3's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted relaxing sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide attempt

will_foster's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

4.5

What a start to this trilogy. Assassin's Apprentice was one of those books I remember seeing as a child and thinking it might be cool to read, but never got around to because my patience for reading was incredibly low back then.

I'm now both glad and sad I didn't read it then. Much of it would have gone over my head. I don't think I'd have picked up on all the details and nuances, would have probably been disappointed about a considerable lack of assassinating, but Fitz would have been such a consoling, if that is the right word, character to read as an awkward child.

I adored Fitz's journey through childhood, through the machinations of the world he finds himself non-consensually thrown into where horrible people hate him just because he's a child born out of wedlock from a royal figure.

I wanted so much to hug Fitz and tell him everything would be alright to the extent that the highs and lows of his story weighed so much more. He is an unreliable narrator and makes a lot of mistakes, but that makes him all the more human and loveable.

It did take me longer to read than I expected. Robin Hobb is an incredible world-builder, you get to know the main locations inside and out, but I found areas to slow quite considerably and ended up reading less per sitting than I thought I would.

That being said, Fitz, and his awful life, is something I'm now completely attached to. I immediately want to continue this trilogy, and the Realm of the Elderlings series as a whole, if only to read how Fitz keeps getting up again and again after he's knocked down and refuses to the let the world ruin him. He will surely have some happy endings, right?

Also, Burrich is an amazing character. Noble and stern but caring, he is the unsung hero of this novel :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death

mcosmic'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? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

eleanorjmca's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting

carrionkid's review against another edition

4.5

This book had me run through the whole spectrum of human emotion ngl

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Murder

maithaalfalasi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Animal death and Infertility