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Inheritance (Inheritance Cycle, Book 4) 1st (First) Edition by Christopher Paolini
37 reviews
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture, Blood, War
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, War
Moderate: Grief
Minor: Vomit, Pregnancy
adventurous
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood
Minor: Child death, Genocide, Pregnancy
tooth trauma, giving someone hallucinogenic drugs when they think its just alcohol seemed kinda weird
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Gore, Mental illness, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Alcohol
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.
adventurous
emotional
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, War
Moderate: Blood, Murder
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture, War
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
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:
Complicated
the ending for this saga wasn't the happiest, but it was the best, i liked how Christopher Paolini ended the story for all the main characters with something realistic for the characters and not some soppy ending where they are all together talking about the good old time
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, War
Minor: Death
adventurous
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Minor: Genocide, Slavery, Death of parent, Alcohol
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
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.)
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.)
Content Warnings
Moderate: Torture, Violence, War
Minor: Body horror, Confinement, Kidnapping
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.
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
reflective
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, War
Moderate: Confinement, Grief
Minor: Medical content, Alcohol