Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Murtagh: The World of Eragon by Christopher Paolini

35 reviews

natashalg's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

3.75

The visions and the antagonist of the book really creeped me out. It was also a little slow in the beginning and somewhat drug on like the previous books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Gaslighting, Religious bigotry, Gore, Child death, Blood, Death, and Torture

Moderate: Trafficking 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

exhaustrovert's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

If you enjoyed the Inheritance series, this book feels like reuniting with an old friend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Torture, Violence, Slavery, Gore, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Confinement, Animal cruelty, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Kidnapping, Murder, Dysphoria, and Genocide

Minor: Toxic relationship and War

wackly93's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Blood

Moderate: Drug abuse, War, Slavery, and Violence

jackiepreston's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Torture, Animal cruelty, Blood, and Child abuse

Moderate: Bullying, Classism, War, Death of parent, and Slavery

sting4780's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

Moderate: Grief, Confinement, Vomit, Torture, Self harm, Gore, and Slavery

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Classism

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.5

I'm SO glad that the author is writing in this world again, this was my childhood and my adulthood. 

I really liked getting murtagh's perspective and I love him and thorn so much, very keen to see what happens next 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Confinement, Gore, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Murder, Child abuse, Violence, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, and Torture

jofu04's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Slavery, Blood, Child abuse, Death, and Gore

betweentheshelves's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

So, I had read that you can pretty much read this without having read the previous Eragon books, which I think is true for the most part. Since it's been 20 years since Eragon first came out, I figured I'd be okay because I definitely don't remember any of details from the first four books. There are references to events and characters that I definitely could not remember, but I could follow what was  happening with Murtagh. 

This book is very much about Murtagh dealing with his past trauma, not only when he was working for the evil king, but also just his unbringing in general. There are some tough moments in this book, both for Murtagh and for Thorn. 

Also, I forgot how long winded Paolini is. I don't think this book necessarily needed to be this long, but it's not surprising that it is. There's some unresolved things, so I wouldn't be surprised if Paolini also revisited this world again in the future, either with Murtagh or with Eragon. I'm sure we'll be getting more books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Confinement, and Torture

Moderate: Kidnapping, Gore, and Slavery

Minor: Self harm and Animal cruelty

savanah's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

There were multiple occasions where I told my husband that I was going to DNF the book if “this 2014 emo pick-me whiny boy” said one more of his “poems”. I really liked Murtagh in the original series because he was a little angst-y and mysterious. Hearing his internal monologue absolutely ruined it. 
I did love thorn he is precious and must be protected at all cost. 
I did see a change in the writing which has improved, but at almost no point did I actually get drawn in to the story, I spent more time rolling my eyes at Murtagh than literally anything else. Would not read again, or if I did I would literally just skip to the last several chapters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: War, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Self harm