A review by divyatejas_venkatesh
Eldest by Christopher Paolini

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

Book is amazing, but if you expect the book to be like Eragon you will be disappointed. As the first book is full of adrenaline it is fast and there will be no places you will feel like the story is slow. But in this second book the world is well defined and Eragon learns from the elves as told in the first book. Where he gains many wisdom and some of those are shared. Though in the first three quarters Eragon's story is slow and filled with details and may sometime feel boring, it is compensated by what is happening in the Roran's part of life and Nasuada's part of life. There are some twists but if you read carefully and think properly in all the angles you may judge what is going to happen. Till last fifty pages you could not understand why the book is named as eldest and which dragon's image is in the first page. I loved the lifestyle of elves. Still no fortune told to Eragon has happened yet

Overall it is a good book, if you wanna learn more about the world after reading the first book. If not some may feel like it is starting to get boring.