3.98k reviews for:

Eldest

Christopher Paolini

3.85 AVERAGE

rosebo's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous lighthearted reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

definitely_not_our_dino's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous medium-paced

rorygk's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense 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

sabrsabr23's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous inspiring reflective slow-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: No

shelbylr_332's review against another edition

5.0

---

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

darth_lil's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional tense fast-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: No

zenithx's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional sad tense 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: Complicated

danemelain's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

---

Man, I was ready to enjoy this book so much. I did enjoy it enough to finish it, but it went downhill quickly at the end. It started well with a lore dump of what happened to Eragon and picked up from the last battle. However, it started off a bit poorly with "killing" characters without showing their bodies. Perhaps I am just super skeptical or have read too many fantasy books to see the tropes but I didn't believe for a sec that those people died in the beginning of the book. He had a lot of great lore of what elves and dwarves were like. Their cultures were cool and intriguing. Yet, the ant-religion nature of elves felt weird along with this "I can explain everything with nature so probably no gods" was pretty crazy in my view too. It was cool to see the two foils of characters in Roran and Eragon but man Eragon being hurt for like 2/3 of the book was pretty long. Dragon culture was interesting but the small asides about different things like vegetarianism and the sanctity of life unless it is humans was crazy. It ended poorly too with all the strong female characters being girl bosses and knowing everything without true faults. I'm not excited to read the next one if that trend continues. The revelation that Murtagh was the next rider was lame cause it was so obvious that Eragon couldn't fight him at full strength which didn't lend that Murtagh was strong. Then Murtagh just left him after being basically saying "if you only knew his cool evil plot then you wouldn't hate him" was crazy stupid. Finally, killing the twins had no true closure cause it was half a paragraph. I feel if we could have finished Eragon learning stuff faster then the end wouldn't have felt so rushed.

thebluelily's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad fast-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

lyssafill's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes