A review by jjmbookstam92
Forest Mage by Robin Hobb

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

The main character is traumatised and indoctrinated by his father and culture's abuses and biases. The fatphobia of that culture seemed an extreme satire of the real world's. At moments I was exasperated at Nevarre's stupidity and stubborn conviction that his view of the 'right' thing to do was the correct one. And yet, as always happens to me with Hobb, once I passed the half way point I had been sucked in and devoured hundred pages per day to see where it would go.