Reviews tagging 'Death'

Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb

14 reviews

katieo156's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective slow-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? Yes

4.0

Oh we are BACK! I wasn't crazy about the end of the Farseer Trilogy and enjoyed The Liveship Traders enough (through no fault of their own I wasn't super into them) but being back with my boy Fitz was all I needed. Robin Hobb's character work continues and I resonated so strongly with the Fool's comment about still wanting to protect the child he was because my heart broke every other chapter. The way Chade reacts to seeing him (and the way

Dutiful

thoughtlessly mentions how Chade refers to Fitz with so much affection that he assumed Fitz was his son??? "My first boy" 😭). Fitz has always been so loved and it was just as hard to read it now as it was in the first trilogy because he doesn't get it!

We are not talking about Nighteyes because I can't yet, but that death scene was one of the most beautiful ways I could imagine saying goodbye to a character- feeling all of life at once as they go.

 

Finally: "I recognized and pushed away a truth I did not want to know".  Fitz I will beat you myself 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

micallab's review against another edition

adventurous sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infidelity and Blood

briely's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I’m crying

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Animal death

atalea's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Drug use, Gaslighting, and Torture

Minor: Abandonment, Confinement, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Murder, Grief, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Kidnapping, Classism, and Infidelity

Minor: War, Sexual content, Infertility, Sexual assault, Rape, Pregnancy, Vomit, Alcohol, and Slavery

chattie_the_mad_chatter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

This book should be read after both "Farseer" and "Liveship" trilogies. 

Getting to spend time with Fitz and Nighteyes again is such a comfort, getting back in touch with tje world and picking up the threads of their life. 
Hobb's characters always shine abd steal the show, seeing old faces made me emotional and meeting new chatacters was exciting. 

Fitz is slowly pulled back into the world of Farseer politics and the tension and plot sucked you in to this dangerous world.

I love Hobb's writing, world building, storytelling and the way she makes you have such string feelings about her chatacters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Mental illness, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Grief, and Addiction

Moderate: Kidnapping, Torture, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Physical abuse

kurumipanda's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Blood, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Animal death, Grief, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

kaziaroo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Death, Blood, Animal death, Torture, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, and Infidelity

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Sexual content

ijustreallyliketrees's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.5

Slow build on this one but it was nice taking the time to catch up with Fitz and where he's been since the last time we saw him. As usual I love Hobb's writing and am interested to see where the story goes from here.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Addiction

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark slow-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

4.25

2024: got through this book and really enjoyed it. A big fan of Fitz and the six duchies. Excited to see more of this world unfold, especially with the Witted. 

2023 dnf: A super slow but long high fantasy? Absolutely not in the right headspace to read this, will definitely be returning to it later 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Violence, Animal cruelty, Abandonment, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Animal death, Blood, Murder, and Slavery