Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Wyprawa skrytobójcy by Robin Hobb

23 reviews

random19379's review against another edition

4.0

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Miscarriage, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Fire/Fire injury

quiet_overthinker's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad 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

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There’s a new horror movie about terrible things happening to a family—told from their dog’s perspective.
And since most headlines put “dog” and “heartbreaking” in the same sentence… people are like: nope.


Mild spoilers

Anyway—The Farseer Trilogy is an amazing coming-of-age story about a relatable, if sometimes a bit dense, character who always pulls the short end of the stick—plus a wolf with an incredible sense of humor. Written by the absolute queen of high fantasy, Robin Hobb.

The world-building is gradual and beautifully done.
The characters are unique, with depth and well written (even the non-human ones).
The magic system is relatively simple.

And yes, it’s only the first trilogy in a much bigger universe, but the ending is as satisfying as possible—considering how Hobb loves to torture her POV character—and the story feels well-rounded.

Anyway, these books with dogs in them are amazing and will break your heart.

Must read.

5/5 for all three.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

chasinggrace's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

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Well. That was fucking depressing. 

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Content Warnings

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

inkysplodge's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Torture

Minor: Rape, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury

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

baobaebye's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Pregnancy

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol

kassidyreads's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book was a struggle to get through! The plot involved a lot of travelling, which I found boring, and many of the characters that I liked in the previous books barely made an appearance. Fitz made so many stupid decisions, but I'm willing to forgive him since he was going through a lot. At least the character development was good, and I loved the relationships between Nighteyes, Fitz, and the Fool! Despite my mixed feelings for this book, I still really enjoyed the series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, War

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Miscarriage, Rape

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Infertility, Alcohol

zsabella's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, Pregnancy

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