Brisingr (Inheritance, Book 3)

I enjoyed this book. I liked the whole series and will look forward to the conclusion in Book 4. The books end leaving you with so many unanswered questions that you can't wait for the next book. Makes it much more interesting and likeable.
Is it the best book I have ever read? Probably not, but it is definitely worth reading.

I like that the author is writing in-depth about characters. I like big books. Keeps you from wondering "I wonder what happened to". It is hard to sum up a story completely with a flash and bang.

I think some of the reviewers are being a bit hard on the author complaining about similarities to other books. Three stars to anyone who can even write a book and get it published.

So if you like flash and bang and want it over quickly, this is the not books for you.

Brisingr and the whole series are a good read!!

I thought that this installment of this series was well written, it brings alot of the elements from the previous books together. I enjoyed listening to this book the best. Just thought it took too long for it to come out, hopefully the last doesn't take as long.

because I couldn't take it anymore. I'm a quick reader and it's been 3 days getting that far. I skipped ahead 500 pages to read the final 100. Paolini's first book was pretty good though long-winded. The second I had to struggle to get through. The third, I just plain won't read the whole thing, btw I haven't finished those last 100 pages yet either. I'm just glad I got it at the library and didn't waste my money.

I decided to check out the reviews only to find out there will be a fourth book, oh great. Guess what? I won't be reading it. Paolini may have come up with a great idea when he was a voice-cracking fifteen year old but he needs some control. It seems publishers will put anything to print anymore no matter how bad it is if people are reading it, ie: they're making sales.

I hope Paolini is going to college or learning somewhere how to write like an adult. His writing style hasn't changed one iota and it needs to badly.

The book starts off clunky and that despite the good intentions of CP, it sets a bad tone for the rest of the novel. The narrative seems mostly forced, mechanical, severely lacking the magic that weaved its way through 'Eragon'. The dramatic scenes in the book were cheasy, hell even the death of you-know-who was melodramatic. It's as if CP said "Well how can I beat some life into this dying horse? mmm...I know lets do so and so, to you know who!"
Some good points of the book:
- Another part of the prophecy that herbalist Angela foretold comes to fruition.
-The complex interactions of Nasuada and Eragon leaves me to wonder if Angela's prophecy was referring to Arya or the new Varden Leader.
-We learn how Galbatorix has become so powerful.
-The writing style was good. However, at times I thought CP was taking lessons from A. Rice, with how convoluted some of the sentences got.

Thats my 2 cents.

I've read through some other reviews and they pretty much cover the flaws in this book. I just wish I had done that BEFORE I bought this 'final installment' in the series. I kept reading and looking at the pages left in the book thinking, 'how are we going to get to the end of the series in this book?' Well, guess what? You don't! You spend hours reading and nothing really happens, and then you find out that nothing IS going to happen until the next book. Did the author have a deadline and couldn't figure out his own ending in time, so they published this 'holder' book instead? Sure seems like it. I think Paolini is over praised as a writer. His series is readable. I would like to have finished it. I get the feeling the author would like to have finished it too, he just wasn't sure how to. I don't think he has any idea who Galbatorix is, or how to defeat him, so he is metaphorically wandering around his pretend country hoping something will come to him. Had I know this wasn't the final book, just the third book, I doubt I would have purchased it. Very clever, of the publishers, really, to squeeze a little more out of their little baby cash cow. I thought the 'plot review' at the beginning was horrible and read just like a freshman's book report of the series. And I thought the writing in general was over blown with verbiage and so empty of plot or substance it was surprising the book didn't just float away. Don't waste your time on this book, wait for the fourth one