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I feel like my soul was sucked out of me😀👍
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
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Toxic friendship, War
Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Drug use, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, War
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Pregnancy
However, like purposefully diving off a cliff, I still felt for the characters and wanted to know what happened with them. This one is definitely a flawed work, more than the previous entries.
Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, War
Moderate: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Blood
Minor: Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Slavery, Pregnancy
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
Assassin's Quest is a fantastic wrap-up to the Farseer Trilogy. Robin Hobb is absolutely a master of complicated character work and by the end of this trilogy I was so invested in the outcome of each and every character mentioned in this story. In this last installment Hobb steps away from many of Fitz's mentors, and we join old and new characters. The old characters grew with Fitz and the new brought out different aspects of life, love, and loss.
I think what blew me away in this book was Hobb's ability to write women characters specifically. In many fantasy books women are placed in a typical overly patriarchal world where they have to scrape and rave to prove they are valuable members of society, and the authors have to say the characters are strong. In this trilogy, specifically Assassin's Quest, the women show their strength and are not overly questioned due to their gender by the male characters. They are complicated and real and have their own separate ideals. I've seen many reviews hating on Starling, who appears toward the middle, and bringing their ratings down because of her, but I believe she is an incredibly important addition to story. She adds the perspective of a character who isn't connected to the prophecies and while I didn't like the person her character represents through most of it she still felt like an incredibly real character.
Outside of character work, Hobb's prose got even better in this book and was just so beautiful and gritty. This book has so many quotable moments it is hard to pick just a few to highlight! I really enjoyed following Fitz trek throughout the Six Duchies, Mountain Kingdom and beyond as it just added a lot of depth to the world as a whole. I also thoroughly enjoyed how much of Nighteyes and the Fool we got in this one! The Fool is definitely my favorite character and I can't wait to get to the Tawny Man Trilogy to see how his story continues.
I will warn readers that the ending does seem pretty final as Robin Hobb originally wrote Farseer with the thought that this was the last she would write about Fitz. So naturally I'm incredibly curious how Fitz's story continues throughout the Realm of the Elderlings. Either way, I'm so impressed with this trilogy and can't wait to continue with the other 13 in this realm. All three of these books were five stars in my humble opinion and no one can convince me otherwise.
Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder
Moderate: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, War
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
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
Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence
Moderate: Miscarriage, Sexual assault
Minor: Pregnancy