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This book did not continue where ERAGON left off, but was a slower, more draining, vastly overdone revamp of Star Wars with fantasy overtones. The dwarf language was excruciating. My boys couldn't even finish it, but I kept on reading to see if it would improve. It didn't. For some reason Paolini didn't want to say a character went "half-way" somewhere, so he wrote "three-quarters" at least six times, as if that were more original. It wasn't. It not only took me out of the story (wondering if I should return to the illustrated map and measure something) it made me wonder what this kid had been smoking. Tedious. Dare I say it? Boring.
If you want good Sci-fi, read the oldie but goodie ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card. For good fantasy, try something new, like FABLEHAVEN by Brandon Mull. Christopher Paolini was hailed as a wonderkid at 15, but it was by his own family marketing machine. I bought the first two books, but I won't fall for it a third time. If his final installment is ever published, I won't even get it from the library.
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Kjirstin, February 16, 2007
This book did not continue where ERAGON left off, but was a slower, more draining, vastly overdone revamp of Star Wars with fantasy overtones. The dwarf language was excruciating. My boys couldn't even finish it, but I kept on reading to see if it would improve. It didn't. For some reason Paolini didn't want to say a character went "half-way" somewhere, so he wrote "three-quarters" at least six times, as if that were more original. It wasn't. It not only took me out of the story (wondering if I should return to the illustrated map and measure something) it made me wonder what this kid had been smoking. Tedious. Dare I say it? Boring.If you want good Sci-fi, read the oldie but goodie ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card. For good fantasy, try something new, like FABLEHAVEN by Brandon Mull. Christopher Paolini was hailed as a wonderkid at 15, but it was by his own family marketing machine. I bought the first two books, but I won't fall for it a third time. If his final installment is ever published, I won't even get it from the library.
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