Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Inheritance by Christopher Paolini

5 reviews

authorannafaundez's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No

5.0

Overall? Loved it.

Just one, pretty minor, complaint: the first 30% or so of the book was mostly fighting and battles, which made the book drag. It could've done with some condensing without losing any substance.

I remember hearing in the past that many readers didn't like how the series ended. Personally, I like the ending. Everything gets tied up, but the bow is messy in a good way. Things aren't perfect; things can still go wrong.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Torture and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Slavery, Pregnancy, and Suicide

f18's review

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Gore, Gaslighting, Grief, Confinement, Body horror, Violence, Murder, and Kidnapping

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

Minor: Child death and Adult/minor relationship

War