Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Wyprawa skrytobójcy by Robin Hobb

15 reviews

moonbunny34's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-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

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Honestly I don’t really have the words to describe how I feel after reading this. Even the ending brought me no joy. This whole trilogy is beautifully devastating, and I can’t wait to continue reading the rest of the Realm of the Elderlings!

I feel like my soul was sucked out of me😀👍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, Rape, Slavery, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment

Minor: Bullying, Infertility, Infidelity

fran's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Loveable characters: Yes

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first half was a bit of a slog, but the second half was delicious 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail

abigail_ohlandt09's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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"Oh, that's so sad:.(" I say a dolphin flies  past me as I'm walking on the yellow brick rode to candy mountain, so I can meet the magic leoploridons.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Torture, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

Minor: Self harm, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, Xenophobia, Suicide attempt

divorcemaster's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Rape, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Alcohol

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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While there were many things I enjoyed about this book, I think the thing I felt most was frustrated.  There was so much that felt like willful ignorance because things were explained well enough that I as the reader picked up on the meaning but that Fitz as the character did not and perhaps could not because they way they tried to explain things to him was not in one he could easily grasp and understand.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

brynalexa's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

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Wow, Robin Hobb can end a chapter! She left me reeling more times than not. Compared to the previous two Farseer books, this one moves quick! Extremely emotional, especially at the beginning and end. There was an odd twist at the end that was uncomfortable but it fits with the culture of the Six Duchies. Loved how it came together in the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, War

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content

downtowndaly's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Alcohol

Moderate: Miscarriage

thoseoldcrows23's review against another edition

4.0

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

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 I can not express how much these characters have stolen my heart. This is for sure a new favorite series for me, and I'm sure my love will only grow as I move forward with the rest of the Realm of the Elderlings. That said, I am giving this one a 4 instead of a 5 because it really is absurdly long, and all though, by the end I had forgiven it all its sins, I can't pretend that there wasn't about 300 pages in the middle of it that dragged on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Vomit, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Abortion

gabi_reii's review against another edition

4.75

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: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage

allyordyna's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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What on earth just happened—

Molly got with Barage?? He’s Fitz’s father figure and could be Molly’s father; I can’t TT
Verity turns into a dragon and leaves his dear wife to run the kingdom on her own, after all she did to find him? Tragic. I was as weirded out as Fitz was when Verity uses his body to get Ketrikan pregnant.
Fitz has no happy ending, and I think that’s what upsets me the most. We’ve followed his self-sacrificial butt across 3 books and like 60 hours-worth of reading and he’s left alone in the final chapter, with no fool, no Molly, no Barage, no Nettle, no Chade, just his wolf and some kid that gets dumped on him… and his broken and scarred body.

I don’t even know what to think of that last chapter. I didn’t expect it all to wrap up so quickly, I suppose. Once again I am left wanting for more like an unquenched thirst. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Violence

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Infertility, Rape, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Abortion