Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) | Christopher Paolini

Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) | Christopher Paolini | Very enjoyable...

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	Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) Christopher Paolini Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2007 - 704 pages average customer review:based on 1502 reviews view larger image
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Darkness falls?despair abounds?evil reigns?

Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship. Soon he is on the journey of a lifetime, his eyes open to awe-inspring new places and people, his days filled with fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and nothing is what it seems. Before long, Eragon doesn?t know whom he can trust.

Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must fight a new battle?one that might put Eragon in even graver danger.

Will the king?s dark hand strangle all resistance? Eragon may not escape with even his life. . . .

Praise for Eragon:
?Unusual, powerful . . . fresh and fluid. An impressive start to a writing career that?s sure to flourish.? ?Booklist, Starred
?Christopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.? ?People
?The new ?It? book of children?s lit.? ?U.S. News & World Report
?An auspicious beginning to both career and series.? ?Publishers Weekly

A #1 New York Times Bestseller
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Strong, if a little slow

When reading the other reviews on this site for this book, I was overwhelmed by the negative response.

It's not that bad.

That being said, there are many ways Paolini could have made this better. It just dragged on for way too long at parts. And worst of all, the ending was clearly forseeable.

Eldest provest to be a less linear, slightly more abstract sequel to Eragon, a very good debut for such a young rider.
Now, on to Brisingr,

Very enjoyable...

Like the first in the series 'Eragon', I found Eldest to be very engaging and interesting. The plot was predictable, but it was predictable in good ways. I find this series very interesting and easy to read.

Looking forward to the third.

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It was ok...

I gave this book three stars because, I did enjoy the story at some points, but many times I felt like the story was going to slow. The characters in Eldest were very flat and one-dimensional. Also, Eragon the character was just unreasonably fake in this story for a number of reasons. He learned like a billion things that would take normal people years to learn such as learning languages, magic, etc...
What made this book worth reading was that the author actually split the story into two perspectives which were Eragon and his cousin Roran. It just made you look forward to reading the parts about the minor characters for some reason.
One thing that I noticed while I was reading the second book was that Eldest seemed to me almost identical to the story lines of Lord of the Rings, Pern, and Star Wars. This was a major put down and you could easily guess what was going to happen next in the story. You could easily relate every single character in Eldest to a character in LOTR, or Star Wars.

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Eldest Review

Eldest (Inheritance)

Over all, I really liked The Inheritance trilogy and Eragon was a great book. The problem is that after Eragon, most of Eldest was a let down and I really hope that the series comes back together in the 3rd book, Brisngr, if not, I bet Paolini will get much worse reviews on Amazon.com.
A lot of the writing could have been cut off though, like most of Eragon's lessons, and many of the long, unnecessary descriptions of random events. The part I hated most about the book, which is also the part that should have been totally scrapped, is the part when Eragon gets magically healed by a dragon tattoo. From then on, other than most of the Roran chapters, the whole book started getting very bad, ESPECIALLY THE PART THAT MAKES THE WHOLE INHERITANCE TRILOGY SEEM LIKE IT IS A TOTAL TAKE-OFF OF STAR WARS!!! I mean, Murtag randomly shows up in the middle of a war, fights Eragon, beats him, and decides to spare his life to tell him the Evil kings most faithful helper is his father, pretty much like the all famous scene in Star Wars:
Darth Vader: "Luke, I am your father!"
Luke: *screams:* "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" *then starts crying like a baby"
This Eldest scene resembled Star Wars WAY TOO MUCH!!!
Paolini should just scrap all of Eragon's chapters from before the blood-oath ceremony to the end, and rewrite them, and after that, edit the book again and take out all of the boring unnecessary parts of the book including the descriptions.
I'm done explaining the bad stuff, and for the good things which is mostly just the overall story, well, all I have to say is I loved the Inheritance series so far, but I think Eragon was a much better book.
I REALLY REALLY hope that Brisingr is much better then Eldest, and proves all the negative Paolini reviews (sort of like most of my review) to a review dump somewhere on the Amazon website.

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