Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb

15 reviews

pulleamurmeli's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

sudenkirjat's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Torture

briely's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.5

I’m an empty shell of a man right now

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Torture, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

johannaplatt's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.0

Having two PoVs was a refreshing change from previous Farseer books! I can see how this book sets up the final trilogy nicely, there's a lot of "scene setting" and introduction of plots. Robin Hobb is an excellent writer - the character

Shun

made me want to scream with annoyance!

Molly's death was heartbreaking for both Fitz and Bee and I was thinking about it for days.

Ended on a cliffhanger and I am keen to see how the next books starts - straight continuation or time jump.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

mqabbadbest's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Torture, and Death of parent

jeninmotion's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

Gosh darn it, Robin Hobb. I had sworn you off and I didn't even hate the Rain Wilds books, I just didn't need more of FitzChivalry somehow not seeing the obvious for hundreds of pages while we're all like "wait a tick, this seems weird, maybe think about it, Fitz?"

...still finished this book in one day, like I did the first three trilogies. I used to stay up til 2 in the morning reading these books, even when I was like "why is 15% of your personality yelling 'no homo' while loving The Fool as much as ever, FitzChivalry?"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, and Torture

avidreadr's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

5.0

Just wow. This book had me glued, I read through the night, read all all all day. I was enthralled with how this story progressed, so unexpected a plot and so cozy and vivid a telling. I was actually there with all of these characters. Plus, LOVED Bee and seeing this side of Fitz. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This started off super slow, but by page 200, I just devoured it and omg the second half plot??? Freaking wild and stressful, I just want to go home and pick up book 2. Also totally reading Bee as autistic coded 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, and Alcohol

ingvirei's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Grief, and Death of parent