Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

6 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

alannajane's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring mysterious reflective 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

4.5

Audiobook is super well read

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Misogyny

bisexualwentworth's review

Rereading this book for the first time since middle school and it sure isn’t very good, huh? 

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. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Ableism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Sexual assault

darkefyres's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense slow-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Death

Moderate: Blood and Violence

Minor: Misogyny and Sexism

lotten4's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

The dragon is cool

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Torture, Violence, and Misogyny

lizziaha's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

A compelling start to series. Many things that occur in this book set up later events in the series. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Death, Grief, and Slavery