Eldest (Inheritance)

I've never been interested in watching Star Wars. I've never read Lord of the Rings. So I have no idea if this series is related to that or not. All I know is that I enjoyed the first two books very much, and when the third came out, I ordered it as soon as I had the money for it. Putting aside the biases of other reviewers and looking at this book as a blank slate without comparing it to other books or movies, I thought this was an excellent book.

Whit a history, from a time that`s are long gone. Where dragons almost are history, a world in war. Where we find a boy, who is more then a orphan child.

This book is a great fantasy book. I am sure that the writer, is going to have a bright future like a Fantasy arthur.

After all the buzz, I finally decided to give this series a try. It is shallow, linear, simplistic and boring. Don't buy this book if you are looking for something along the lines of Tolkien, LeGuin, or even Rowling. You will be sadly disappointed.

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.

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,