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Eragon by Christopher Paolini

47 reviews

ahmedhassan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Death and Death of parent

anni_swanilda's review

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Death, Genocide, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Slavery

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

kait_sixcrowsbooks's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

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

1.0

So I actually read this first when I was younger, maybe when I was 10 or 11? And I thought it was really cool, I loved the dragons and the magic and everything. I decided to re-read it, and then read the rest of the series sometime this year, and uh. It definitely did not hold up at all, lol.

Simply put, the book is bad. Like, really bad. The writing is tedious, the characters and their interactions with one another are flat, and the story dragged for forever. The "climax" was a blur of a battle scene, and that was it. I didn't care for any of the characters, even when the author was trying so hard to make the reader sympathize with them.

And my goodness, the use of the traditional fantasy tropes was....annoying....to say the least.

Here is the full review on my blog!

https://sixcrowsbooks.wordpress.com/2021/01/22/review-77-eragon-by-christopher-paolini-the-inheritance-cycle-1/

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Fatphobia, Grief, Rape, Torture, and Vomit

The rape is (inferred) attempted rape. Also warnings for: massacre/mass murder (described); imprisonment (described); and beheading (described).

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

War

mrclaire's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

• 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

Moderate: Violence and Torture

Minor: Vomit

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