Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb

8 reviews

katieo156's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Oh we are BACK! I wasn't crazy about the end of the Farseer Trilogy and enjoyed The Liveship Traders enough (through no fault of their own I wasn't super into them) but being back with my boy Fitz was all I needed. Robin Hobb's character work continues and I resonated so strongly with the Fool's comment about still wanting to protect the child he was because my heart broke every other chapter. The way Chade reacts to seeing him (and the way

Dutiful

thoughtlessly mentions how Chade refers to Fitz with so much affection that he assumed Fitz was his son??? "My first boy" 😭). Fitz has always been so loved and it was just as hard to read it now as it was in the first trilogy because he doesn't get it!

We are not talking about Nighteyes because I can't yet, but that death scene was one of the most beautiful ways I could imagine saying goodbye to a character- feeling all of life at once as they go.

 

Finally: "I recognized and pushed away a truth I did not want to know".  Fitz I will beat you myself 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

micallab's review

adventurous sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Physical abuse, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infidelity and Blood

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: Animal death, Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Infidelity, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Abandonment

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, Torture, Violence, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Kidnapping, and Classism

Minor: Infertility, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Vomit, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and War

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: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, and Infidelity

Minor: Sexual content and Suicidal thoughts

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.25

2024: got through this book and really enjoyed it. A big fan of Fitz and the six duchies. Excited to see more of this world unfold, especially with the Witted. 

2023 dnf: A super slow but long high fantasy? Absolutely not in the right headspace to read this, will definitely be returning to it later 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Hate crime, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

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

Moderate: Mental illness

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

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