Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Murtagh: The World of Eragon by Christopher Paolini

26 reviews

damascus922's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Physical abuse, Torture, Emotional abuse, Violence, and Death

headrickjeanne's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.5

Absolutely loved. Just remember as with many Paolini books, you may feel like it needs to be shorter than what it is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Physical abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Violence, Child abuse, Trafficking, War, and Torture

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

sylexlibris's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Drug use, Torture, Animal cruelty, and Physical abuse

mighty_lizard_queen's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Murtagh's next book should be on overcoming his new flaw of tripping so often. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, War, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Confinement, Kidnapping, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Self harm, Murder, Slavery, Animal death, and Child death

Minor: Child abuse, Suicide, Alcohol, Vomit, Xenophobia, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Excrement, and Domestic abuse

Drug use is forced Xenophobia relates to fictional races Excrement is an animal’s, one scene

ayanaj's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, War, Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Torture, and Slavery

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Kidnapping

Minor: Child death

greenrequiem's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Torture, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Mental illness, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, War, Blood, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

theinkwyrm's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

3.5

As someone who considers The Inheritance Cycle series one of my favorites, I was both excited and apprehensive about this book and after finishing this, I still think both of those emotions are warranted. Let me start by saying that I am so bummed because I was all ready to really love this book, but I don’t just think that this is as good as the original Inheritance series (but that might be because I prefer Eragon as a character to Murtagh). I also think that this should be read as a companion novel rather than a continuation of the original series, by which I mean that if you have really good memories of the original series, you might want to skip this book because it really did change how I look back on the first four books in a not super great way. That being said, this wasn’t a terrible book and it still had that very bingeable reading quality that the first four books did, it just felt like it was trying to do too much, particularly in the last 1/3ish of the book where it felt like 10 pounds of plot in a 5 pound bag. While Murtagh and Thorn end up with a lot of great character growth, the plot has so many loose threads that it feels almost guaranteed that this is the beginning of a spin off series (which Paolini acknowledges and basically confirms in the acknowledgments section at the end). I’m honestly not sure if I’ll continue reading more books from Murtagh’s POV in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

linselus's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Blood, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Blood and Slavery

erafact's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Physical abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Drug use, Death, Murder, Slavery, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Grief, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Violence

paperviking's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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: Child abuse, Violence, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse