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Eragon by Christopher Paolini

53 reviews

ran_sophia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

The story read very well and I read the whole book quickly, despite its size.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Torture, Kidnapping, and War

Minor: Death of parent

a_wren_that_reads's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Death, Slavery, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Rape, Torture, and Alcohol

flowergrove's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

Loved this book. Eragon turns from a cocky kid, to a person with skill and incredible responsibilities. Saphira is super sassy and a loving character. Murtagh is brother like to Eragon and Brom a father.  Definitely a book I will be reading and rereading for a time to come. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

_alyssar_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Slavery, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Misogyny, Rape, Torture, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

lunep's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, Torture, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

theasbookworld's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

ahmedhassan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Death and Death of parent

anni_swanilda's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Child death, Death, Genocide, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Slavery

juliette_95's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping and Murder

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, and Death of parent

kait_sixcrowsbooks's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

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

1.0

So I actually read this first when I was younger, maybe when I was 10 or 11? And I thought it was really cool, I loved the dragons and the magic and everything. I decided to re-read it, and then read the rest of the series sometime this year, and uh. It definitely did not hold up at all, lol.

Simply put, the book is bad. Like, really bad. The writing is tedious, the characters and their interactions with one another are flat, and the story dragged for forever. The "climax" was a blur of a battle scene, and that was it. I didn't care for any of the characters, even when the author was trying so hard to make the reader sympathize with them.

And my goodness, the use of the traditional fantasy tropes was....annoying....to say the least.

Here is the full review on my blog!

https://sixcrowsbooks.wordpress.com/2021/01/22/review-77-eragon-by-christopher-paolini-the-inheritance-cycle-1/

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Fatphobia, Rape, Torture, Vomit, and Grief

The rape is (inferred) attempted rape. Also warnings for: massacre/mass murder (described); imprisonment (described); and beheading (described).