If you followed my Goodreads updates about this book, then you already know I didn't like it. I wasn't expecting not to like it tbh, because I've heard only good things about it, so I was ready for an epic tale full of adventure and dragons. Boy, was I wrong.

First of all, the writing style makes this book hard to read. The exposition is unreal, more than 75% of this book is exposition and I felt I was reading a story within a story. I understand that the readers need context but I believe it could be done differently, because I almost died of boredom. The action scenes were few, compared to the portion of characters talking, traveling and then more talking!

Our main boy, Eragon, is stupid. And I can back up that statement. Let's start with the fact that he decide to find his uncle's murderers and kill them, without having battle training or sense of direction. Monsters were pursuing them and he decided to try and kill them all with magic, when he'd only been training a few days and almost killed himself. He went into a temple knowing he might meet the bad guys (even though they were supposed to be incognito) and he was utterly surprised when they found him and almost killed him. He was in a prison cell and was complaining that the food wasn't good enough and that the soldiers were making noise and wouldn't let him rest. He broke his hand falling from a rock. Need I say more?

I believe that even the author knew that Eragon would be useless alone, that's why we don't see Eragon doing anything by himself in this whole 600+ page novel. First he had Brom, then Murtagh. He didn't survive A SINGLE FREAKING DAY by himself and I am to believe he's the grand hero the world is waiting for. For me, Brom was the real MVP, without Brom, Eragon would know nothing and I'm not exaggerating one bit. Even though I liked Brom, every time he would open his mouth and I realised it was another humongous part of exposition, I died a little inside.

All in all, I think it's clear I won't be continuing with the series.