Nicoletta Martin’s Reviews > Murtagh > Status Update

The difference between the Eragon series and this book is like... Playing D&D with someone who's never played before, doesn't really know the rules or gimmicks and is just enjoying the world vs. someone who's played a million times before and knows how to just spam interactions to get the answers they need to move on to the next quest. Most pages of dialogue or descriptions are entirely skippable ...

Crazy how large portions of text can be skipped over when you know that the main character is going to succeed anyway so that the plot can move along

Feels like reading through a D&D campaign so far... So many random NPCs to talk to and get information from so that the quest can be completed so that the answers to questions can be learned so that the... Etc.. Etc...