Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Brisingr by Christopher Paolini

7 reviews

jodean's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Death, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Grief, and War

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Slavery, Pregnancy, and Body horror

sanctuary_in_the_pages's review

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, War, and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Gore, and Alcohol

Minor: Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, and Panic attacks/disorders

laszloluvr's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, War, and Murder

avsdhpn's review

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.75

 I started the Inheritance series back in high school over a decade ago, finally got around to reading the third installment. Thus continues the adventures of Eragon and Saphira as they embroil themselves in the politics of their world as war is about to begin.
Paolini definitely could have used an editor, he meanders needlessly and tends to fixate on the unnecessary. The 750 page book could have easily been ~500 with a few snips here an there. I'll be a little generous and say some of his homages to other works of fiction were also fairly blatant (a city called Gil'Ead taken over by the evil empire for example). The first half of the book was a bit of a slog, but around 2/3rds of the way through, it picked up and got more interesting. Points for adding a synopsis of the previous books at the beginning! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Violence, and War

Minor: Death of parent, Ableism, and Animal death

clockworkhobbit's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Violence, War, Death, Gore, Xenophobia, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Cannibalism, Confinement, Murder, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Grief, Suicide attempt, Ableism, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Medical content, Cursing, Child death, Addiction, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Rape, Islamophobia, Miscarriage, and Panic attacks/disorders

lunep's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Idk what to say about this, it took me 2 months to finish lmao
It's not bad, it wasn't even boring, like the first half of Eldest, I was just busy with life so now I don't remember much of what happened in the first half of this. I'll forever love Eragon's sword tho, that part made me binge the ending instead of getting to work
So much happened in this book too, tbh, but at the same time it's kind of an in-between, mild stuff happens so the bigger stuff can happen in Inheritance, and considering that they were going to be one book, it makes sense I guess

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Grief, Violence, Body horror, Cursing, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit and Torture

Minor: Slavery, Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Animal death, Misogyny, and Animal cruelty

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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? No

2.75

I like that the author experimented with the structure of the book, going from perspective to perspective among the different characters, but boy, did this book drag. A lot of the details didn't feel necessary, and the book felt like it was long for the sake of being long. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Alcohol, Body horror, Medical content, Pregnancy, Vomit, and Xenophobia

Minor: Confinement, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Suicide attempt, and Torture

War