2015 Reading Challenge [Closed] discussion

I've been wanting to read this for quite a while, glad for the excuse!

This was one of my favorites when I was younger, plus I really love the name of the bad guy. I hope you'll enjoy!

This is a hard one for me to rate. If I'd read it in middle school or early high school, it would have been a five star, top-of-my-favorites-list type of book. Reading it in my early 30s, it was entertaining and held my attention, but nothing really stood out to me. A lot of it had a "been there, done that" kind of feel to it, reusing a lot of tropes and plot twists from other stories. Knowing that the author is younger than I am (though by less than a year) and that he wrote this in his teenage years though, I'm pretty impressed. When I think about the crap that I wrote when I was a teenager, this is a masterpiece!

It took me more than halfway through the book to realize that "Eragon" and "Dragon" are only one letter apart. I kept waiting for that to have some kind of significance, but it didn't.

Anyway, it hasn't stuck with me much, but I enjoyed it while I was reading it. I'll read the next one, though I hear I should avoid books 3 and 4.