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boglord's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and War
Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, and Ableism
Minor: Alcohol, Abandonment, Confinement, and Misogyny
bisexualwentworth's review
I definitely couldn’t have written a better book as a teen, to be clear, and I still find this story very entertaining and fun and generally engaging. Saphira is one of my favorite dragon characters ever. Murtagh is wonderfully compelling. Christopher Paolini’s descriptions are very lush (sometimes overly so). And if I continue rereading more of the series I know I’ll enjoy Nasuada and Roran’s sections.
The gender of it all is just as messy and sloppy as I remembered, and the handling of disability is definitely abysmal and I don’t recall it getting better.
The worldbuilding and plot are generally unoriginal, but I really don’t care because 1) I enjoy it and 2) again, the author was SO YOUNG when he wrote it. There are some very silly aspects of the worldbuilding, though. I definitely assumed that the Ancient Language was much more of a conlang as a kid than it actually is. So much of it is just kinda sloppy Latin with some Japanese thrown in I feel like? Goofy.
Anyway I think that we need more overly long silly fun dragon books.
Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, and Violence
Moderate: Misogyny, Ableism, and Xenophobia
Minor: Sexual assault
saintyeehaw's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.25
Graphic: Physical abuse, Slavery, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Gore, Grief, Trafficking, Torture, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Child death, War, and Violence
kait_sixcrowsbooks's review
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.0
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/
Graphic: Death, Gore, and Violence
Moderate: Ableism
Minor: Fatphobia, Grief, Rape, Torture, and Vomit
The rape is (inferred) attempted rape. Also warnings for: massacre/mass murder (described); imprisonment (described); and beheading (described).zombiezami's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Grief, Gore, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, and Violence
Moderate: Child death and Cannibalism
Minor: Ableism
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