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Inheritance by Christopher Paolini

10 reviews

natashalg's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad medium-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? Yes

3.75

The way Eragon is able to challenge the king is kind of a cop out, but I still enjoyed it since it did dive into the trauma the dragons faced and allowed them to fight back as well. I also wish there was some way that Earagon could have stayed, he has his reasoning but I think I would have enjoyed this book more if it ended happier and more fulfilling. The ending also leaves a lot unanswered. What about Arya's developing feelings? Angela's past? The werecats future? Does Earagon reach a safe space to house the dragons? Does Saphria have children after mating? Does that mate bond apply to Earagon as well since it was mentioned in an earlier book that they're bond of love will include the other? Anyways, it was a good read, better than the previous books but i wish more happened rather than just explaining the world or emotions.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Body horror, War, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Confinement, and Torture

Moderate: Grief and Kidnapping

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

sting4780's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Torture, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and War

gracefully_jk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, War, Torture, Violence, Suicide, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Kidnapping, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Gore, and Mental illness

There is generally a lot of war in this series, and this book is no different; in fact, it has somewhat less fighting than previous volumes. However, there are still descriptions of violence, including a character losing a hand

(temporarily—it is repaired with magic)

, but even this is not described in too graphic a way. There are also torture scenes

which mostly involve using hot irons, strange bugs that crawl under the skin (but don’t do much more than cause pain), and gaslighting/mental manipulation

, but no sexual violence. There are also several mentions/descriptions of atomic bombs and their effects, though they are not named as such and it’s in a fantasy-like way.

melancholymegs's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, Kidnapping, Torture, Physical abuse, War, and Confinement

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Slavery, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Genocide

vogelobre's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

I enjoyed this book decently. Rereading the Eragon books as an adult after first liking and then hating them as a tween/teen, I've found them pretty fun and easy to read, with likeable characters and respectable attempts at diversity considering they were written by a white teen boy in the 2000s. I was pleasantly surprised to see both a WoC PoV character as well as some subversion of common fantasy race tropes. Of course there could have been more of that, and the writing of female characters was often not the best, but still. 
I liked Inheritance as a finale to the Eragon saga. I won't say it's the best book in the series, but it certainly had the most on its plate and it tied up the plot pretty neatly. I also liked the more or less open ending. The thing that bothered me the most about the book is the way the main villain was written. He was clearly meant to have a very intimidating and charismatic presence, but in my opinion the writing failed at conveying that. He felt like a third-rate Bond villain to me, which is kind of sad when the other books had been building up to this very threatening, unknowable sort of antagonist. Something that also ties into this is that the author is, in my opinion, not great at writing smack talk or funny/witty dialogue. I can't remember a single 'funny' line in the series that I actually found funny, all of the quips and jokes just lanr somewhere between 'forgettable' and 'embarrassing'. That's the main reason I don't like the character Angela, her dialogue basically only consists of jokes that don't land and paper-thin quirky/mysterious allusions that go nowhere. Sorry, Angela.
This problem extends to the main antagonist as well. He doesn't really have any lines that are meant to be funny, but he says a lot of things that are meant to be threatening, and almost all of those fall flat. I wish he would talk less, it would make him seem much more intimidating. 
Apart from that, I found the book very fun and pleasant to read. It doesn't really have any super deep themes apart from 'working together is good' and 'violence is bad, maybe, sometimes'. Its main point seems to be 'dragons are cool', and it very successfully gets that point across. Dragons *are* cool, especially the ones in this series, and dragon-riders are also very cool. I'd recommend this book series to anyone who likes dragons and easy-to-read fantasy books. I like both, and I had a nice time with the Eragon series (despite mostly focusing on the negative stuff in this review. Sorry.)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, War, and Violence

Minor: Confinement, Kidnapping, and Body horror

This is a children's fantasy book. It's got some violence and stuff, one scene is pretty disgusting

the one with Nasuada being tortured with those maggot things

but it's still a children's book. If you're older than 14, you're pretty likely to be able to handle all the violence in it. It's probably less violent than Warrior Cats.

clockworkhobbit's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Violence, War, Blood, Confinement, and Torture

Moderate: Ableism, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Self harm, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Suicide

Minor: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Animal cruelty, Infertility, Kidnapping, and Misogyny

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

This book draaaaagged. It felt like it was long just for the sake of being long. Every time I came to a significant plot point, I thought, oh, this book must be wrapping up and moving on its way, only to see that there were hours left in the audiobook. For example, when

the big bad was finally defeated, there were 5 hours left!

. The storytelling could have been a lot tighter overall. I enjoy many of the characters however. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Gore, Gaslighting, Grief, Confinement, Body horror, Violence, Murder, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Slavery, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Minor: Child death and Adult/minor relationship

War

swazwald's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Blood, Death, Gore, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Violence

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, and Vomit

jackiepreston's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

3.5

I forgot how much of a BS ending this book has

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Death, Torture, and War

Moderate: Pregnancy

lizziaha's review against another edition

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

As much as the romantic in me wants to disagree, I liked the ending to the book, although my logical brain strikes an issue with the “leave and never return” thing. Just because the last time he leaves, he won’t return, doesn’t mean he can’t return after the first time, right?? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Torture, Violence, Confinement, and War

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Vomit