The final book in the series of the Inheritance cycle, Inheritance by Christopher Paolini came out in November 8th, 2011. The book is filled with action and suspense. Christopher Paolini takes the idea of dragons, elves, and dwarfs to a new level. The story has a lot of twists and turns that make this book a page-turner. This book has all the qualities that a well written book has. In this book one of the unique characteristics that it has is that in between good and evil it shows both sides and as the story progresses it shows how Eragon grows up in the whole series.
The book Inheritance is about a boy named Eragon and his dragon Saphira. From all the past experiences that he has had Eragon has now grown into a powerful dragon rider. The struggle of overthrowing Galbatorix is starting to look a little better with the Varden after they take down the city Belatonia. During this siege Saphria was almost killed by legendary spear called Dauthdaert. This spear has the power to be able to kill anyone dragon even though they are protected by magical barriers. Then as the story goes on Roran is sent out to many missions to capture cities and he is successful even though his plans were risky. Siege after siege Eragon realizes that if they keep going like this they are doomed to fail. Eragon remembers what the werecat has told him and he searches for the Vault of Souls. In order to enter Eragon and Saphria have to say their true names, which they have to figure out on their own. In the end Eragon manages to take down Galbatorix and peace is restored in the kingdom.
There were many positive and negative reviews about this book. Eric Allen said, “This book was both too long, and too short. That may seem rather paradoxical, but it’s true. I would say that at least 70% of this book was padding that was completely irrelevant to the story, and the 30% that actually had anything to do with the story was so underdeveloped because of it that it felt rushed and unsatisfying. The padding made it far too long, and the lack of attention paid to the relevant plot elements makes it far to too short. It’s neither a consistently good book, nor is it consistently bad. It does have some decent moments, albeit, most of them were shamelessly lifted directly from Star Wars, but if you’re going to rip something off, it might as well be quality material. “ He also commented about how the plot of the story is kind of off because there were many parts where it didn’t really make sense.
