Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Eldest by Christopher Paolini

24 reviews

natashalg's review

adventurous dark emotional slow-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? No

2.75

Was incredibly slow plot wise, and I found myself bored thoughout most of the book, even during the battle scenes. Parts that should have been longer were incredibly short, and it felt like this whole book was exposition. I found the characters hard to relate to and at times irritating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Animal death, and Gore

Minor: Animal death and Fire/Fire injury

emma6544's review

I was going to continue on this book (I originally gave myself until the end of the year). However, I decided to stop reading it earlier than planned. I also liked the introduction to other characters perspectives that we encountered in the previous book. 

But, personally it’s not worth the significant slog to read them because the start of this book is really good but it becomes stale in the middle. 

the middle part of the novel consists of Eragons training with the Elves and, in my option, this should have been cut down to a small montage to keep the story going. <\spoiler>

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, and Violence

readbyella_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, War, and Blood

sunriseat0519's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, War, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Blood and Pregnancy

Minor: Kidnapping, Slavery, Death of parent, and Genocide

melancholymegs's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Suicide, and Torture

Minor: Racism, Slavery, Bullying, Child death, Death of parent, and Grief

thelostbookmark11's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Suicide and Cursing

darkefyres's review

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Chronic illness

Moderate: Murder, War, Xenophobia, and Blood

clockworkhobbit's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious reflective medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Slavery, Kidnapping, Murder, Gore, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cursing, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Animal death, Miscarriage, and Torture

rangerwing75's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

Very slow but very enjoyable - so nothing out of the ordinary for Paolini’s writing. A good sequel to Eragon with a lot more focus on developing Eragon and looking into more the cultures of some of the other races

yes I mostly just mean the elves, but the Blood-Oath Celebration was so interesting

. The only thing that bothered me was Eragon’s pining after Arya. She made it clear she didn’t want to date him several times, but he kept going

until she literally ended their friendship because of how much it was bothering her

But that’s my only complaint. Everything else was fantastic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Pregnancy and Suicide

lunep's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.5

The first third-to-half was a little rough, ngl, I was not very motivated to keep reading, I felt it was sloww. Roran's chapters didn't hold my attention at first, and then it was Eragon's the ones that started to drag. But after the half-way point it really picked up and got good, and I'm easy to please and the ending makes or breaks books/movies/series for me, so if I enjoy the ending I can usually forgive any earlier misgivings lmao, and this books ending is bomb. I remember reading that plot-twist and having my mind blown as a 12 y/o, and even now, 12 years later, I found stuff that I don't remember picking up before, which was very fun. I think Eragon had big character growth during this book, even tho he's a dumbass on some stuff still. He definitely feels older now.

And god am I depressed about him and Murtagh, it's such a tragic situation in which both of them fuck up, and even at the begining of Brisingr Eragon understands Murtagh but still feels betrayed and renegues him as brother...ugh, my kids 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Gore, Ableism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Vomit, and Alcohol

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Murder, and Cannibalism

Minor: Genocide, Infidelity, Slavery, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Torture