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A review by heymeghan
Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
4.0
Well. I's hard for me to be objective about books in a series - I can't tell you about writing style (good or bad), pacing, character development... because I am so involved with the story and the charaacters I have grown to love (or hate), my inner English teacher is stifled a bit. So - while I was thrilled to see how it finally wound up (Thanks, Paolini, for not stretching it out unnecessarily like Brisingr), I did NOT enjoy some of his plot choices. Cue spoilers.
a. A plot diagram has a big rise ending in a climax - the highest point of action - which for the Inheritance is the ultimate defeat of Galbatorix (yeah, I hate that name, too. so cheesy). After the climax is a short (SHORT!) decline where the author wraps the story and then the end of the diagram and thus the plot. So why, why???, was Galbatorix defeated on page 719... and the book had 860 pages?!?!? Sorry, BORED NOW!
b. So you make me read 150 or so access pages and then... Arya and Eragon don't even end up together?? Seriously???
c. It's small but: what happened to Eragon's damn belt?!? You spent, I dunno, three pages expounding on its loss, even sending Eragon back into the Hall 300 pages later to search for it... and it never reappears?? Is this a cheesy way of sparking a spin-off series (oh , sorry, CYCLE, for those of us too good for normal book-ish words)? Where the hell is the belt???
Whew. Sorry, had to get that off my chest.
Overall - I was entertained, I can't deny that. And, Inheritance (what's with the completely unoriginal title, by the way) was MUCH better than Brisingr in terms of pacing and action (okay, maybe a little of my inner English teacher coming out there). Overall, recommend, because once you start a CYCLE (not series, mind you), you gotta finish it!
Spoiler
a. A plot diagram has a big rise ending in a climax - the highest point of action - which for the Inheritance is the ultimate defeat of Galbatorix (yeah, I hate that name, too. so cheesy). After the climax is a short (SHORT!) decline where the author wraps the story and then the end of the diagram and thus the plot. So why, why???, was Galbatorix defeated on page 719... and the book had 860 pages?!?!? Sorry, BORED NOW!
b. So you make me read 150 or so access pages and then... Arya and Eragon don't even end up together?? Seriously???
c. It's small but: what happened to Eragon's damn belt?!? You spent, I dunno, three pages expounding on its loss, even sending Eragon back into the Hall 300 pages later to search for it... and it never reappears?? Is this a cheesy way of sparking a spin-off series (oh , sorry, CYCLE, for those of us too good for normal book-ish words)? Where the hell is the belt???
Whew. Sorry, had to get that off my chest.
Overall - I was entertained, I can't deny that. And, Inheritance (what's with the completely unoriginal title, by the way) was MUCH better than Brisingr in terms of pacing and action (okay, maybe a little of my inner English teacher coming out there). Overall, recommend, because once you start a CYCLE (not series, mind you), you gotta finish it!