Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Legado by Christopher Paolini

11 reviews

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Grief

evren219's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

It is one of the best series ever written. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Violence, Grief, and War

Minor: Death, Gore, Mental illness, Slavery, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

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

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

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

actualophelia's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

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, and Injury/Injury detail

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

2.0

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, and Gaslighting

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

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Child death

War

swazwald's review against another edition

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

4.75

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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, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, and Vomit