Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Eldest by Christopher Paolini

27 reviews

hedyharper's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Child death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Slavery, War, Xenophobia, Racism, Alcohol, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, Sexism, Torture, and Violence

potion96's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Violence, War, and Gore

Moderate: Chronic illness

_rowantree_'s review

adventurous slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Torture, Colonisation, and Death of parent

natashalg's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.75

Was incredibly slow plot wise, and I found myself bored thoughout most of the book, even during the battle scenes. Parts that should have been longer were incredibly short, and it felt like this whole book was exposition. I found the characters hard to relate to and at times irritating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Animal death, and Gore

Minor: Animal death and Fire/Fire injury

emma6544's review against another edition

I was going to continue on this book (I originally gave myself until the end of the year). However, I decided to stop reading it earlier than planned. I also liked the introduction to other characters perspectives that we encountered in the previous book. 

But, personally it’s not worth the significant slog to read them because the start of this book is really good but it becomes stale in the middle. 

the middle part of the novel consists of Eragons training with the Elves and, in my option, this should have been cut down to a small montage to keep the story going. <\spoiler>

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, and Violence

readbyella_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, War, and Blood

sunriseat0519's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, War, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Blood and Pregnancy

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

melancholymegs's review

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Suicide, and Torture

Minor: Racism, Slavery, Bullying, Child death, Death of parent, and Grief

thelostbookmark11's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Suicide and Cursing

clockworkhobbit's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Violence and War

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Slavery, Kidnapping, Murder, Gore, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cursing, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Animal death, Miscarriage, and Torture