Eragon: Book One (The Inheritance Cycle, 1)

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Overall, I just think that this book was written as though it had a template or blueprint for "traditional fantasy novel" and the details and names were simply filled in. I don’t care what kind of books or genre you read, if the book sparked your love for reading a genre, that gets a praise from me and Paolini did it for countless readers.

Eventually, in an ancient elven ceremony, the Agaetí Blödhren, Eragon is affected by powerful magic, turning him into an elf-human hybrid, and healing his back injury.

Across the bay stood the mountains of the Spine, sawtoothed and ridge-­backed behind a bank of obscuring haze, and the salt water between appeared deep and cold and unfriendly. But it turns out Eragon is the teenage boy who finds the dragon named Saphira and together they are the only ones who can fight the powerful and corrupted tyrant Galbatorix. He looked back once to see Thorn still crouched atop the crest of the hill, watching with slitted eyes.

Los Angeles Times, while noting that the writing was more mature, criticized the novel for being inconsistent.The Deluxe Edition has the same art by John Jude Palencar with an added gold outline and “DELUXE EDITION” on the spine and a gold sticker on the front of the dust jacket. There are dragons and elves, sword fights and unexpected revelations, and of course, a beautiful maiden who's more than capable of taking care of herself. As for the worldbuilding - well, he stuffs it with every imaginable fantasy trope, as I mentioned before. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. My feeling was that this book was nothing special because, if I may be so blunt, "it's been done," and it's been done better.

Publishers Weekly also gave a positive review for Eldest, praising the revelations in the final pages. Farthen Dûr is in the southeastern part of Alagaësia, the fictional continent where The Inheritance Cycle takes place. It is less like this book was written and more like it was sewn together from the torn apart products of others, like some old quilt on which the stitches are showing. He kept a steady pace as he ran onto the flats surrounding Ceunon, past creeks and copses, over stone fences and through fields of barley and rye ripe for harvest. I was working at a library during the time that this book was being published and had access to a galley of the novel.

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