jzkannel 's review for:

Murtagh by Christopher Paolini
3.0

This book was fine. It was fun to go back to Alagaesia and get new content, and cool to read from the perspective of another rider and dragon besides Eragon and Murtagh, but I don't really feel like this book was needed after a very solid inheritance cycle. It also has the same problem I have with the Avengers Movies, where every movie has the most powerful something ever created and defeating the bad guy is the hardest thing ever, and then the next movie they just come up with something even more powerful to explain away the last one. At the end of Inheritance, it's revealed that Galbatorix knows the true name of the Ancient Language and can use it to truly fuck shit up. Once Murtagh, Eragon, and Arya learn it it's over. Now, in this book, Murtagh's use of the Word doesn't work sometimes because there's a powerful witch who gets her power from a hole in the ground who gives her followers special amulets. Where was she and this hole in the ground for the first four books?

Also, Murtagh spends a lot of his time imprisoned by people.