Christopher Paolini, having started his series "Inheritance" at just thirteen, used to have my respect and be my hero as a writer--as I started seriously writing when I was thirteen, too--but then I got to Brisingr and that ended. Given the nature of the series up to that point, I found it impossible to finish and I don't think I'll even touch the fourth book unless I can get some interest in the political aspects of the series' world of Alagaësia. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm plenty interested in the politics set out in the mystical worlds brought to us by fictional novels, but I picked up the series in the first place for the dragons, as I'm sure many of the readers did. Seeing the main character separated from his dragon for a hundred pages or more is definitely not... thrilling. At least not in the way that the series up to that point was.
Though that's just my opinion. What do you guys think of Christopher Paolini and the Inheritance saga?
Though that's just my opinion. What do you guys think of Christopher Paolini and the Inheritance saga?
