I was introduced to the Eragon/Eldest series by my brother Joe. Now he is not the Fantasy reader that I am and so I was pretty interested in this series. I am not sure how many of you are fans of this series but the new book, "Brisingr" is coming out tomorrow 09/20/08.
This book will continue where the second book, Eldest, left off with Eragon and Saphira escaping from the battle with their lives and supposedly the book goes into how Eragon has to try and juggle all of the promises that he had made to the different groups in the previous books.
Although I have enjoyed the series so far, I felt that Eldest took a step backwards from how good the first book was.
In the first book, the character had that "come alive" feeling that made it a page turner for me. However, Eldest seemed to get bogged down and I found myself wishing it would just move the story along. I hope that the third edition continues with the writing that first book started and doesn't bog down. This was in essence what ruined The Wheel of Time series for me.
If anyone reads this book and can share their viewpoint, please feel free to leave a comment.
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