Reviews tagging 'Death'

Legado by Christopher Paolini

25 reviews

gracefully_jk's review against another edition

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Mental illness, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, and 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.

readbyella_'s review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Blood and Murder

beathoughtfullyhence's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

5.0

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Minor: Death

melancholymegs's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

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

darkefyres's review against another edition

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Confinement and Grief

Minor: Medical content and Alcohol

kew16's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Torture and Blood

Minor: Animal death

clockworkhobbit's review against another edition

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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

a_wren_that_reads's review against another edition

adventurous medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Racism and Alcohol

kibbles15's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.0

 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, and Blood

lunep's review

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

5.0

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, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Suicide, and Fire/Fire injury

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