Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

10 reviews

boglord's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

laurajeangrace's review against another edition

adventurous medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, War, and Child death

Minor: Child abuse, Slavery, and Confinement

theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Body horror, Grief, Gore, and Alcohol

Minor: War, Slavery, Cursing, Confinement, Trafficking, Torture, Child abuse, Murder, Medical content, Physical abuse, Vomit, and Domestic abuse

henrib11's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, War, Torture, Physical abuse, Grief, and Gore

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Torture, Kidnapping, Death, Abandonment, Slavery, Murder, Confinement, Alcohol, Mental illness, Grief, Child death, and Child abuse

Minor: Death of parent and Pregnancy

saintyeehaw's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

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

micaelamariem'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? No

2.0

I had a really hard time getting into this book. The worldbuilding is amazing and so very thorough and learning that the author was 15 when he wrote this is incredible. So incredible that I'm jealous as a want to be author at 26. But, there are times you can tell that the author was 15. It seemed like there was a lot of detail that didn't need to be there, like he wasn't giving readers enough credit to understand what was going on. Plus, we don't need to know every time the characters are hungry or tired--we get it. Also, this was full of every trope from the fantasy genre imaginable. There's nothing wrong with tropes, there is a reason they're popular. But fitting them all in while not even turning them on their head made the book more cliche and predictable. And to put it plainly, I was bored the whole time. This book had so much potential but the writing made it fall flat, and I don't think I'll be continuing the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Death, Grief, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War, Torture, Violence, and Slavery

Minor: Alcohol

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

Okay listen. I first read this book when I was about 10 years old and it broke open my mind to the world of epic fantasy. I also see the bad editing, predictable plotting, and gender role issues but it's such a comforting nostalgic read so take my totally biased high rating and frequent rereads with a grain of salt.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Confinement, Child abuse, Alcohol, and Grief

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

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

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

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: Murder and Kidnapping

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

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I first read this when this came out (I was in middle school then), and now I've just read it again as an adult. As many have said, it is super trope-y, but it's to be expected when it's the work of a 16-year-old. Beat for beat, it's basically Star Wars: A New Hope, but with dragons. I remember really liking this as a kid, but it's super violent, which I don't so much like now. 

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Content Warnings

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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