Reviews tagging 'Death'

Inheritance (Inheritance Cycle, Book 4) 1st (First) Edition by Christopher Paolini

31 reviews

darkefyres's review against another edition

4.5

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, War

Moderate: Confinement, Grief

Minor: Medical content, Alcohol

kew16's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Torture, Blood

Minor: Animal death

clockworkhobbit's review against another edition

5.0

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: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

a_wren_that_reads's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, War

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Racism, Alcohol

kibbles15's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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 I went in to this book with a little bit of worry. I did not really enjoy book three of this series (Brisingr), but I felt that it kept enough interest to pursue reading the final book. I am so glad that I did. I will say that the final novel followed the pattern of the first two novels in the series (Eragon and Eldest) by starting out slow before the story begins to move forward. But once the story got going, I could not put the book down. It was a nice end to the series. Note: This book does not stand alone, you need to read the previous books in order to follow what is going on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood

lunep's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I think it was a little slow in the beginning, but the last third I read non-stop until I finished. I remembered very little of it, I actually don't even remember re-reading it in 2018, and I was so confused lmao, for example I thought the Aroughs' siege was in Brisingr and it actually happens in this one.
I think it was a solid ending, even tho it broke my heart. I do have a couple of complaints, but some of them you can kind of explain I guess.
Also, forever being depressed about Eragon and Murtagh,

I'm glad Eragon got his head out of his ass, but Murtagh still deserves an actual apology

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Ableism, Cursing, Misogyny, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Pregnancy

actualophelia's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

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It's been over a decade and I'm still going feral over the

all-conquering power of empathy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

zombiezami's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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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, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting

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

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death

War

swazwald's review against another edition

4.75

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

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

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Vomit

jackiepreston's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I forgot how much of a BS ending this book has

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Pregnancy