Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Legado by Christopher Paolini

26 reviews

cturn's review against another edition

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Vomit and Pregnancy

f18's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, and Blood

Minor: Child death, Genocide, and Pregnancy

tooth trauma, giving someone hallucinogenic drugs when they think its just alcohol seemed kinda weird

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

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

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

wordswoods's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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? No

4.0

While a great last installment, it did take too long for me, which meant I took a 3 week break about 3/4 of the way through. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Blood

Minor: Child abuse