“Eragon”, by Christopher Paolini
Rating: 
(5 stars)
Eragon is a normal boy who hunts in the forest to find his food for the family and is a normal person. That only lasts, though, until he falls into a swirl of adventures and a power struggle so vast that he doesn’t understand what he must do. I loved this book and you will love it too. The characters were very creative and imaginative, described with great detail and the setting was also described very closely that I could picture the plot happening in my mind. Eragon finds a stone in the forest, which he later finds out that it is a dragon’s egg! A dragon hatches out of the egg and at once he becomes a rider. He makes new friends, and also enemies, as he sets out on an adventure to avenge his uncle’s murder, by the King and his forces. During his travels he learns a lot about swordplay and even magic and dragons. Eragon joins the side of the King’s enemies, to support the side of the good. He fights battles against the King and learns of the importance of him existing in the world. He meets breeds of creatures that he thought never even existed, that they were just stories. Eragon all of a sudden becomes a vital need to both the King and his enemies. I liked this book a lot because it is imaginative, all the creatures sound very real, and the events going on are neither described a bit too much and neither are they described not enough. The story was long and now I’m trying to go reach eh sequel of this book “Eldest” and probably go on to read “Brisingr”. I would recommend this book to people who like adventure, and would like to believe in fantasy. I think that teenagers would find the book more interesting than other age groups, because the book is about a teenager boy.
