No, I haven't read Novik - but she is somewhere in my huge and ever growing "To Read pile". All I know is that there are dragons and the Napoleonic wars. Are they good?
And since I read your other post I know you've finished now, and come to the, IMO, rather bad ending. Not only does that ending further exemplify what you have so rightly described as a lack of believability in Eragon's journey as a hero. But it also just makes him seem like a huge ass. So your brother was tortured and turned to evil against his will? And your big decision is to shrug and say: oh well, didn't really consider him a brother any way. *grrr* Seldom have I been so mad at the end of a book.
And the worse part is that book three will probably have some Murtagh redemption - both since Paolini is the kind of author who thinks this would be necessary, and also since the plot is quite closely based on the Original Star Wars Trilogy.
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Date: 2007-10-08 03:29 pm (UTC)And since I read your other post I know you've finished now, and come to the, IMO, rather bad ending. Not only does that ending further exemplify what you have so rightly described as a lack of believability in Eragon's journey as a hero. But it also just makes him seem like a huge ass. So your brother was tortured and turned to evil against his will? And your big decision is to shrug and say: oh well, didn't really consider him a brother any way. *grrr*
Seldom have I been so mad at the end of a book.
And the worse part is that book three will probably have some Murtagh redemption - both since Paolini is the kind of author who thinks this would be necessary, and also since the plot is quite closely based on the Original Star Wars Trilogy.