cturn's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Death, War, and Violence
Moderate: Animal death, Pregnancy, and Slavery
aammeess's review
- 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? No
3.75
Graphic: Animal death, Death, and War
avsdhpn's review
- 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
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!
Graphic: Blood, Murder, Violence, and War
Minor: Death of parent, Ableism, and Animal death
corvusastrum's review against another edition
3.5
Moderate: Animal death
thelostbookmark11's review
- 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
Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Animal death
Minor: Death of parent, Torture, and Pregnancy
darkefyres's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Death, Violence, War, and Grief
Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Pregnancy, and Racism
Minor: Sexism
clockworkhobbit's review
- 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
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
wogslandwriter's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Death, Violence, War, Xenophobia, Animal death, Gore, and Hate crime
Moderate: Mental illness
Minor: Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Torture
This is a high fantasy book with lots of battles and sword fights. The battles have some graphic and gorey descriptions. The same goes for some of the meals that Sapphira, the dragon eats. There is also racial tension between the humans and other non-human groups which gets violent at times. There is a lot of deaths and injury to main and side characters.therazzdazzler's review
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Violence, and War
zombiezami's review against another edition
- 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
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