saramdeuri's Reviews (310)

A really compelling premise, excellently delivered! The ending kept me glued to the book, rather unexpected in a good way. There's more books but this works rather well as a standalone too.

A cute and heartwarming story. A lot more fantastical than I thought it would be, but not in a bad way. 

A fun little adventure, although I'm kind of disappointed that the main overall plot isn't actually resolved at the end of the book. It's left on a mild cliffhanger to lead into the sequel, bit I don't think I'll read it any time soon.

Frankly it's a really good book when you consider the fact that a 15 year old wrote it. And that's even an advantage, when the main character is the same demographic as the author - Eragons thoughts, choices, and actions really make sense for his character. There are some parts where you can see Paolinis influences very clearly, but he holds his own pretty well too, there are some unique ideas here! I look forward to rereading the rest of the series.

All the greatness of Dune condensed into a shorter, more tense sequel. You can really feel the prescience here, you get to know exactly how emotionally painful it is for Paul and Alia to know everything and yet feel like it's not enough in this book. Really just a great book! deducting .25 simply because I'm not as big a fan of the Hayt-Duncan parts as I thought I'd be, and also that weird scene with Alia (you'll know exactly what I'm talking about)

Obviously I read all the ones in the middle too!! Such a wonderful, absurd in a good way series. This is so much more developed and deep than I remember the anime being. I'm glad I found a translation!

I had fun reading this!

i'm simply taking a break! finished the first one and planning to take a breather and read some other stuff before returning.

It's so cute, I wish there were more chapters but it was wrapped up quite nicely so I can't complain too much!