Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb

10 reviews

mqabbadbest's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Graphic: Animal death, Torture, and Xenophobia

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

kendoll_renea'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? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Torture, and Violence

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

ofthebrownajah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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: Torture and Animal death

themysteriouserk's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.75

Fitz and The Fool, now posing as the fashionable foreign noble Lord Golden, return to the political intrigue of the Six Duchies after a long absence. Their return will be welcome to fans of Robin Hobb’s sprawling Realm of the Elderlings series as Fitz’s psychology is further explored and his relationships with The Fool, his beloved wolf Nighteyes, and the others with whom he’s shared his life are both deepened and challenged. To top it all, readers will find one of the fastest-paced and most self-contained stories in the series so far, without sacrificing the character development and extensive worldbuilding that make the series so memorable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Confinement, Death, Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, and Homophobia

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Alcohol, Addiction, Drug use, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

hardbackednooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad tense 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

5.0

I liked the first trilogy in this universe well enough, but this is turning out even better.

EDIT 4/29/2022: Just finished my second read of this and this book was SO SLOW compared to the others, which also weren't very fast. The first portion of the book is slice-of-life storytelling with Fitz/Tom Badgerlock, Hap, and Nighteyes living their idyllic life on the farm, which was honestly super lovely. The majority of the book, however, is endless traveling, witnessed/experienced persecution, and "tell don't show" style worldbuilding. The last 1/3 or so ramps up the action, drama, and tension which has basically everything that was missing at the beginning. It's definitely slower-paced than the others, but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing since we do have a fairly large time gap to address and fill in. Based on what I could tell, it's somewhere around 8-10 years between the end of the first trilogy and the beginning of this one. The Liveship Traders trilogy events occurred towards the end of that time period, but since they didn't have much from the Six Duchies, there are a lot of events to cover.

Overall, this started out feeling like a weaker book in the overall series, but Hobbs' writing has improved so much at this point and the plots and intrigue ramp up more than enough towards the end of the book that it basically evens itself out for me. It'll be interesting to see how the rest of the Tawny Man trilogy measures up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Torture