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Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
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.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Blood
Minor: Child abuse
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
relaxing
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Great installment of the series, but a difficult one to get through because it was so slow paced. Onto the last one!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Blood
Eldest by Christopher Paolini
adventurous
challenging
dark
inspiring
reflective
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? No
4.0
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
tense
medium-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? It's complicated
4.0
My girlfriend has been bugging me to read this for at least two years and finally I did!
A great first installment into a YA fantasy tale, we follow Eragon, our 'chosen one'. He is the first dragon Rider after an age of them all dying out after a great war. Eragon finds a dragon egg, sees it hatch and secretly helps the dragon to grow up as he lives on a farm with his family. But soon, he is terrorized by enemies driving him away from all he knows. He is thrust into a plot where all want to use them for their own goals and he has to decide who to side with.
A great first installment into a YA fantasy tale, we follow Eragon, our 'chosen one'. He is the first dragon Rider after an age of them all dying out after a great war. Eragon finds a dragon egg, sees it hatch and secretly helps the dragon to grow up as he lives on a farm with his family. But soon, he is terrorized by enemies driving him away from all he knows. He is thrust into a plot where all want to use them for their own goals and he has to decide who to side with.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death and Blood
Lass mal sitzen: het wonderlijke steenkolenduits van Hollanders by Reinhard Wolff
funny
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Sexism
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
This.. This short novella takes you on a literal space ride. Touring various planets in order to glean something from them in the name of science, the crew of the spaceship loses contact with earth. But what does that mean?
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Did not finish book. Stopped at 13%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 13%.
This did not grab my attention at all. Might be better as a physical book? I don't know.
Narrator's voice is quite monotone as well, so that might have influenced my decision to put the book down too.
Narrator's voice is quite monotone as well, so that might have influenced my decision to put the book down too.
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
challenging
tense
fast-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? No
3.0
The story follows a teenage girl with a very strictly religious mother as she tries to navigate herself through fitting her mother's mold with the way she sees herself. Along the way, she (re)discovers (slam) poetry.
I liked this novel, but I wasn't as blown away by it as I've seen other people be. The audio performance is very well done, the story is good, but it didn't really pull me in or move me as much as I thought it would.
I liked this novel, but I wasn't as blown away by it as I've seen other people be. The audio performance is very well done, the story is good, but it didn't really pull me in or move me as much as I thought it would.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Religious bigotry
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-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
4.0
This was a ride.
Station Eleven follows various people throughout the unraveling and aftermath of a worldwide pandemic. We also get flashbacks to their earlier lives.
Written before the Covid-19 pandemic, some of the things that happen are all too realistic: stocking up on supplies like water, air traffic halting, people not being warned in time but mostly, people knowing about it but thinking it's probably not so bad and continuing their normal lives.
The big difference, though, is that this pandemic's death rate is estimated to be around 99%. Air traffic never starts back up again and eventually, all power networks, electricity and the internet cease to be. A new kind of survival society unfolds.
We follow different storylines in the past and present and learn why they are intertwined along the way.
This novel is a tale of a pandemic gone wrong, a view into a post apocalyptic society, but also a reflection about which things really matter and why.
You will not be disappointed. And I'm not going on a plane anytime soon.
Station Eleven follows various people throughout the unraveling and aftermath of a worldwide pandemic. We also get flashbacks to their earlier lives.
Written before the Covid-19 pandemic, some of the things that happen are all too realistic: stocking up on supplies like water, air traffic halting, people not being warned in time but mostly, people knowing about it but thinking it's probably not so bad and continuing their normal lives.
The big difference, though, is that this pandemic's death rate is estimated to be around 99%. Air traffic never starts back up again and eventually, all power networks, electricity and the internet cease to be. A new kind of survival society unfolds.
We follow different storylines in the past and present and learn why they are intertwined along the way.
This novel is a tale of a pandemic gone wrong, a view into a post apocalyptic society, but also a reflection about which things really matter and why.
You will not be disappointed. And I'm not going on a plane anytime soon.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Murder
Minor: Mental illness