A review by bennysbooks
Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb

adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

I'm fully obsessed with this series by this point, but Robin Hobb manages to capture my heart over and over again. In this book in particular Hobb explores

grief, lonelines, trauma, boundaries, prejudice, abusive relationships (and the grooming involved to establish them)

- and that's sort of just my dazed, post-Fool's Errand mind mush list. There's so much in here. The fantasy setting is rich and well-established, and has been from the beginning of the series (yet continues to expand each book). But it's the humanity that draws me in. I cried so many times. I mean, at the obvious bits (if you know, you know), but also at

the Fool and his love for Fitz, which is one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful things I have ever read. Beloved? Omg.

It was also perfectly slow for my taste. I think at this point anyone reading is used to the pace of Hobb's books, and the meandering pace of the beginning was exactly the time with Fitz that we deserved after leaving him for a bit with Liveship books. 

Ugh. I love this series so much. I can't even write a proper review.