I really wanted to love this book because I LOVE The Inheritance Cycle and deeply enjoyed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. 

Let me start by saying I’m a huge fan of both Paolini and Sci-Fi, so to find myself bored and almost depressed by this book in the first 30% was very disappointing, but I refused to give up because something amazing must be in the horizon… there wasn’t. This book is slow, depressing, and encapsules everything that someone would hate about going to space, without any of the fun or wonder from exploring new places.

The book was still very well written, Paolini is a talented author after all, and the audiobook had amazing narration, although I still find it odd that we were in a male head the whole time and the narration was a female voice, but she did a stupendous job. The sound effects also helped the story along so I’m not sure how much boring reading this on paper would have been.

At the end of the day I expected more and I leave wanting Murtagh more than ever, because fantasy is were his strengths lay, or so I hope.