A review by bored_chloe
Inheritance by Christopher Paolini

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

I loved this book, which is weird to say when I thought the first was okay and the second and third got worse with each book. This one was a little boring to me for about 200 pages until we get to Roran being sent away for a siege and when, finally, Galbatorix appears on page. Personally, I think he should have appeared sooner because he was fascinating as a character and I'm not entirely sure of exactly what is 'evil' about him other than destroying the Dragon Riders and the whole stuff with Murtagh.

So now, why 3 stars?

To start with, I don't enjoy the writing and how things are described that much. I still don't like Eragon much as a character but he was tolerable and he was less annoying as I'd found him in previous books. And lastly, I hate that I spent three years reading the first 3 books in this series and hardly enjoying them only for this to be so good I could barely put it down for the last three days.

As for the ending, I didn't hate it, nor did I love it, but I couldn't see any other way of ending it because of how Galbatorix had been built up with his power and skill with magic. 


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