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The whole Inheritance Cycle series used to be one of my favorites in fantasy. I don’t like it as much now, mostly because how similar it is to LOTR/Star Wars gets in the way of how I enjoy it. Brom is basically Obi-Wan, Galbatorix is very close to Palpatine… the elves live in the forest and have a seriously addictive passion for songs and the stars, so it’s kind of a Star Wars/Tolkien mashup.

I did really like the magic system, though, with the idea of energy and shifting that around. Also, the dragons were epic. And the rider blades were epic…and the battles were pretty epic. There was a lot of epicness in them, come to think of it, which is I think why I liked them so much. It just could have been polished by a little more mastery and originality of story.  Also, the elven discussions on philosophy were interesting, although there wasn’t any opposing arguments to them that ultimately pointed to truth in the series.

But, can we all just take a minute and appreciate the fact that Paolini wrote the first book as a fifteen year old? 😀

Honestly, that is epic, if anything about the series is. True, it was his parent’s publishing company. But I don’t know many people who could write something as good at fifteen. Unless it’d be one you Emberlings 😉 I’m pretty confident one of you could do it