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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
thee_eclectic_eccentric's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, War, Blood, Death, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Murder, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Slavery, Child abuse, and Animal death
theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition
- 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
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
jess_tries2read's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
My complaints with the book come from the lack of character building with Eragon. He never really faces any choices in the book that affirm who he is. He isn't really tempted much to stray from the path other characters lay out for him. He is distraught by sad things, but just pulls himself up and carries on to the best of his abilities. When things go wrong, it's hardly from choices Eragon makes; it's always because someone else did something, or he ran out of strength. The plot happen to the characters rather than the characters driving the plot (for the most part).
All in all, still love this series, first one is 4.25 ⭐️
Moderate: Body horror and Blood
sharktwoth's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Blood, Torture, and War
Minor: Alcohol
abby_can_read's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
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It's been aging since I read this book and the series. I had a good time. The characters were good, the relationships were decent, the plot was enjoyable, and the writing was alright.
Original-⭐️⭐️⭐️
Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Death
Moderate: Torture, War, and Death of parent
Minor: Gore, Slavery, and Vomit
coreyarch9's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I LOVED this book when it came out over 20 years ago and went into this reread expecting a similar experience to my 11-year-old self. But the book was slower than I remember, and I didn't understand why much of the wandering around was included. But this also means that I don't remember the series as well as I thought I had, which makes me even more excited to continue the reread? Idk. It's very complicated. Despite my mixed bag of reactions to this book, I am full-steam-ahead enthusiastic to read Murtagh after I get through the first four books!!!
Moderate: Murder, Torture, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Classism, Death, Death of parent, and War
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
everesto's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Violence, Blood, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and War
Moderate: Genocide and Grief
Minor: Slavery and Alcohol
queen_cocolatis's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Death, and Grief
Minor: Slavery, Blood, Medical content, Torture, Vomit, and War