Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb

4 reviews

allyordyna's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

4.0

What on earth just happened—

Molly got with Barage?? He’s Fitz’s father figure and could be Molly’s father; I can’t TT
Verity turns into a dragon and leaves his dear wife to run the kingdom on her own, after all she did to find him? Tragic. I was as weirded out as Fitz was when Verity uses his body to get Ketrikan pregnant.
Fitz has no happy ending, and I think that’s what upsets me the most. We’ve followed his self-sacrificial butt across 3 books and like 60 hours-worth of reading and he’s left alone in the final chapter, with no fool, no Molly, no Barage, no Nettle, no Chade, just his wolf and some kid that gets dumped on him… and his broken and scarred body.

I don’t even know what to think of that last chapter. I didn’t expect it all to wrap up so quickly, I suppose. Once again I am left wanting for more like an unquenched thirst. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Gore, and Violence

Minor: Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Infertility, Rape, Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Animal death

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, Death, Murder, Blood, Animal death, and Drug use

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Classism, War, Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Child abuse

Minor: Rape, Miscarriage, Vomit, Infertility, Death of parent, Abortion, Sexual assault, Homophobia, Slavery, Ableism, Child death, and Pedophilia

kaziaroo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Death, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and War

Minor: Homophobia, Infidelity, Outing, Rape, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Transphobia

aseaoftomes's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

For those of you who don't know me, the Realm of the Elderlings (RotE) is a series that means everything to me. It's impossible to review something I love and adore as much as I do. Anything I say about this book won't encapsulate the overall feeling and story, so I'm not going to do my normal routine (fully).

This is the third and final book in the Farseer trilogy and the third book in the overall RotE series and it picks up right where the second book left off. Fitz is recovering from the events of the last book with the help of Chade and Burrich and once he's well enough again, he goes off on a quest to seek revenge against the one who took everything from him, but ends up being commanded by his king to go to him and things go from there. 

Every element I normally do in my breakdowns (writing, plot, characters and world building) is just phenomenal. Hobb's characters and world building in particular are some of the best I've read. It's not a simple act of reading these books, you live them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Rape and Child death