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A review by barbarianmissy
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
3.5 ⭐️
I’m glad I finally finished this book after my dog ate it before I finished it well over a decade ago. I had forgotten a lot of the plot and it’s a really cool world!
It’s crazy that the author wrote it when he was only fifteen. That’s unreal to me that at that age he was able to create such an interesting world full of culture, magic and unique characters. Mind = Blown!
I really did enjoy it, but a few flaws were that the journey was LONG. The majority of this book is just Eragon travelling throughout the continent. My favourite bits were the beginning and the end because we were actually in a place long enough to meet characters with enough backstory to form attachments to them and for the story to actually grow and have a cool plotline.
As for the characters, Eragon is a dramatic lil guy and I love that for him. He is very much just a friggin teenager, who had A LOT of responsibilities just fall onto him and he’s just trying to figure out wtf he’s supposed to do about it. Alas, everyone around him is so damned CRYPTIC.
Brom was a cool old dude but he BUGGED me with all of his secret keeping. If Eragon had known more about his past, Brom could’ve given him way more information that he actually needed to succeed instead of all this cryptic shit. Like his secret wasn’t too crazy for me and I felt like Eragon was a smidge stupid for not seeing it sooner, but he’s just a lil moody emo teen who couldn’t connect the dots cause he’s too busy feeling his feels.
Arya, I liked her towards the ending as she became an ultra badass, but if the author called her slender and petite and found another way to say she was super beautiful ONE MORE TIME without her ever even being CONSCIOUS for half the book, I was gonna scream. Could really see the fact that this was written by a teenage boy when it came to her character for the first bit. REALLY Happy that she didn’t just end up being a damsel in distress the whole time.
Two characters that were pretty awesome to me were Murtagh, gotta love a cool dude with dark and stormy backstory, and Saphira, the queen that you are! God save the QUEEN of dragons, the lady of the skies, the dream sapphire-scaled girlie who will rip a man in two! ICON ALERT 🚨
Overall, I had fun! I’m excited to read book two and also rewatch the terrible Eragon movie and get mad at it! WHOOP WHOOP!
I’m glad I finally finished this book after my dog ate it before I finished it well over a decade ago. I had forgotten a lot of the plot and it’s a really cool world!
It’s crazy that the author wrote it when he was only fifteen. That’s unreal to me that at that age he was able to create such an interesting world full of culture, magic and unique characters. Mind = Blown!
I really did enjoy it, but a few flaws were that the journey was LONG. The majority of this book is just Eragon travelling throughout the continent. My favourite bits were the beginning and the end because we were actually in a place long enough to meet characters with enough backstory to form attachments to them and for the story to actually grow and have a cool plotline.
As for the characters, Eragon is a dramatic lil guy and I love that for him. He is very much just a friggin teenager, who had A LOT of responsibilities just fall onto him and he’s just trying to figure out wtf he’s supposed to do about it. Alas, everyone around him is so damned CRYPTIC.
Brom was a cool old dude but he BUGGED me with all of his secret keeping. If Eragon had known more about his past, Brom could’ve given him way more information that he actually needed to succeed instead of all this cryptic shit. Like his secret wasn’t too crazy for me and I felt like Eragon was a smidge stupid for not seeing it sooner, but he’s just a lil moody emo teen who couldn’t connect the dots cause he’s too busy feeling his feels.
Arya, I liked her towards the ending as she became an ultra badass, but if the author called her slender and petite and found another way to say she was super beautiful ONE MORE TIME without her ever even being CONSCIOUS for half the book, I was gonna scream. Could really see the fact that this was written by a teenage boy when it came to her character for the first bit. REALLY Happy that she didn’t just end up being a damsel in distress the whole time.
Two characters that were pretty awesome to me were Murtagh, gotta love a cool dude with dark and stormy backstory, and Saphira, the queen that you are! God save the QUEEN of dragons, the lady of the skies, the dream sapphire-scaled girlie who will rip a man in two! ICON ALERT 🚨
Overall, I had fun! I’m excited to read book two and also rewatch the terrible Eragon movie and get mad at it! WHOOP WHOOP!
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail