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4.0 AVERAGE
4.0 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
With the inheritance cycle I am pretty biased since they were my first "real books" which I read like at 12 yo I know its shortcomings and probably wont reread... a second time but I really treasure these books for making me love reading
It was a bit better than ok, but not quite good. I find this series went downhill as it went on, with the first book being good, and then a slowdropoff from book 2 to book 4. It's hard to point out something that's "wrong," and it's still a reasonable book, a pretty fitting ending to the series, but it fell into some predictable channels and was fairly unsurprising with its plot advancement. I appreciated the direction Paolini took with his romances, which was fairly refreshing to that sinking feeling I get whenever the obvious love interest is introduced in fantasy. A large portion of the book is fairly wordy, for not much advancement however, spending a lot of time explaining the world, without said explanation adding anything in particular. I found myself spending a lot of time not caring about the book in the middle and wishing it would end just so I could know the resolution to the series.
Having said all that, I found it a satisfying end to a series I've been following for years, with enough creativity in its plot advancement and resolutions that I wasn't disappointed in the conclusion to the series and the storylines of characters therein. I would recommend the series overall, especially to young adult readers looking for more fantasy.
Having said all that, I found it a satisfying end to a series I've been following for years, with enough creativity in its plot advancement and resolutions that I wasn't disappointed in the conclusion to the series and the storylines of characters therein. I would recommend the series overall, especially to young adult readers looking for more fantasy.
With this final novel, I am convinced of a few things: this series has created characters that are more realistic and human than many others; the Dutch translation of "Inheritance" is worse than it has any right to be, with inconsistencies within itself (using imperial and metric measurements within the same book, for example) and with the other books (using different translations of a name that already had a good translation in previous books); and it can get kind of frustrating after a while to have the narrator tell you that a character has a plan and explains it to others, without giving the reader any details. However, the ending takes proper care of the "what now"-feeling you get when the big adventure is complete, and it has been fun to see how Paolini, being so young when he started the series, simply became a better writer as the series progressed. All in all, I'm happy I read these books.
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Honesty this book is actually better than I remember it, definitely can see why I loved this series as a teenager but also how it’s not my cup of tea anymore. Everything was foreshadowed well and resolved well with interesting twists and turns and nothing obvious
Okay, I guess.
It was an ending. Maybe not the best it could have been, but it was dealing with baggage from the previous books. A few parts of this book feel pretty fluffy, or don’t have a ton of purpose; I feel they could be combined with other scenes. Some moments Paolini does nail it tho. The rest… *shrug*. I felt (ME PERSONALLY) that the characters were a bit lacking (not unique to this book), and the final ending unsatisfying. There are a few moments here and there that are really well done, just not as many as I was expecting or hoping for. There are a few more objective critiques that I have, but those are spoilers and I’ll leave them out.
6.5/10
It was an ending. Maybe not the best it could have been, but it was dealing with baggage from the previous books. A few parts of this book feel pretty fluffy, or don’t have a ton of purpose; I feel they could be combined with other scenes. Some moments Paolini does nail it tho. The rest… *shrug*. I felt (ME PERSONALLY) that the characters were a bit lacking (not unique to this book), and the final ending unsatisfying. There are a few moments here and there that are really well done, just not as many as I was expecting or hoping for. There are a few more objective critiques that I have, but those are spoilers and I’ll leave them out.
6.5/10
adventurous
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A (mostly) satisfying end to the series.