Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) Review

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(More customer reviews)Instead of a lengthy review on how terrible this book is, I will give you points on the good and bad aspects of the book. Let's begin with the good side, shall we?
Good
-Murtagh. You have to wait nearly the entirety of the book for him to reappear again, but it's worth it. He's the only character I get excited over in this entire trilogy nowadays, and that's because he's now more mysterious than ever. I do wish that he'd described Murtagh's tormenting by the Twins rather than the exceedingly boring tales of Moses Roran. Murtagh is the reason why this book recieves two stars.
Sadly enough, that's all the good points I have!
Bad
-Predictable, there's nothing you haven't seen before in Eldest. I figured out Eragon's relationship with Murtagh as soon as Murtagh retold his childhood, it doesn't take a genius to figure it out. All you have to do is watch Star Wars.
-"Borrowing" ideas from the likes of Tolkein and other fantasy greats. The elegant and beautiful elves in the enchanted forests and the mountain dwelling, axe wielding, beer chugging dwarves are all too familiar. As are the Urglas similarity to the Orcs. I could name many other things, but most of you get the idea by now.
-Preaching: Unlike the Orcs, Urgals are suddenly given an intelligent brain in order for C. Paolini to get all preachy on us about not being racist against monsters that kill babies and throw them on top of mounds of dead, innocent villagers' bodies just because Galbatorix promises to help them. I'm sorry, but I don't feel any sympathy for murderers, Mr Paolini. Also, he forces the all too corny ideals of eleves upon his unwitting readers. While vegetarianism is fine, it is slightly tedious to read about Eragon and his vegetarian struggles, because it's so unbelievable and two-dimensional.
-Arya and romance. Please, spare us Paolini, from your horrible, unrealistic romances and all of your horrible cliches! Hero falling for perfect elven princess, it is at first unrequited...heard it all before. Please, come up with something new and unique! Plus, you don't feel for Arya either, because she's unlikeable. She's cold, removed, and down right annoying. She's supposed to be mysterious, but she comes off as "try-hard". Perfection rarely works in making a character popular. You just wish she'd accidently get squashed underneath Saphira in one of her drunken adventures.
-Eragon. He is boring. So very, very boring. There is nothing unique about his character. You don't sympathesize with him, because you know that he too, underneath his forced "flaws" (oh my goodness, he has a scar on his back from no fault of his own and he accidently cursed a girl but he can now reverse it so it doesn't make much of a difference) that Paolini has added just to make him seem more realistic, is just another unbearable "perfect" character. He will succeed at everything, and everyone will love him and obey him eventually. I stopped feeling for him all together when he changed into an elf. If there's a better way to kill off a readers connection and compassion for a character, then please, do tell me.
-Cliche. For once, why can't a male be kidnapped? I'd love that! Poor, helpless male needs rescuing, what an original idea! Now, I'm no feminist, but the whole damsel-in-distress thing is getting really old. And boring. When Katrina gets kidnapped, you just go "here we go again...". You don't feel enough for Katrina and Roran as a couple to actually be upset when she is captured, as their romance is severely underdeveloped, despite the fact that it is made mind numbingly clear Roran will do anything for her. Most people would do anything for the person they loved, it's generally a given thing, not something special to the two of them.
So, in conclusion (finally!) if you would like to read this book, you're probably better off borrowing it. Just like Paolini borrowed all of his ideas from others. If you'd like a giggle, make sure to read Paolini's so called 'romances', and prepare to laugh like you've never laughed before!

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