Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Inheritance by Christopher Paolini

29 reviews

clockworkhobbit's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Violence, War, Blood, Confinement, and Torture

Moderate: Ableism, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Self harm, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Suicide

Minor: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Animal cruelty, Infertility, Kidnapping, and Misogyny

a_wren_that_reads's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, War, Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol and Racism

kibbles15's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.0

 I went in to this book with a little bit of worry. I did not really enjoy book three of this series (Brisingr), but I felt that it kept enough interest to pursue reading the final book. I am so glad that I did. I will say that the final novel followed the pattern of the first two novels in the series (Eragon and Eldest) by starting out slow before the story begins to move forward. But once the story got going, I could not put the book down. It was a nice end to the series. Note: This book does not stand alone, you need to read the previous books in order to follow what is going on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Animal death, Death, Blood, and Violence

btwnprintedpgs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, and War

Bugs used for torture

actualophelia's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

It's been over a decade and I'm still going feral over the

all-conquering power of empathy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Animal death, Gore, Physical abuse, Blood, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Torture

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

This book draaaaagged. It felt like it was long just for the sake of being long. Every time I came to a significant plot point, I thought, oh, this book must be wrapping up and moving on its way, only to see that there were hours left in the audiobook. For example, when

the big bad was finally defeated, there were 5 hours left!

. The storytelling could have been a lot tighter overall. I enjoy many of the characters however. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Gore, Gaslighting, Grief, Confinement, Body horror, Violence, Murder, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Slavery, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Minor: Child death and Adult/minor relationship

War

swazwald's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Blood, Death, Gore, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Violence

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, and Vomit

jackiepreston's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

3.5

I forgot how much of a BS ending this book has

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Death, Torture, and War

Moderate: Pregnancy

lizziaha's review against another edition

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

As much as the romantic in me wants to disagree, I liked the ending to the book, although my logical brain strikes an issue with the “leave and never return” thing. Just because the last time he leaves, he won’t return, doesn’t mean he can’t return after the first time, right?? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Torture, Violence, Confinement, and War

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Vomit