Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Eragon

Eragon was a boy who found a strange stone in a mountain range called The Spine. He took it home and kept it after trying to sell it to the butcher, Sloan, to get money for his family. Sloan would not buy it because he hated The Spine. He was not a very nice man. Eragon goes home to his cousin Roran and uncle Garrow, with the stone and life is normal for the next few weeks. Roran left to work at Therins Ford. Eragon and his uncle were alone. Five strange beings enter Cavahall. They were called Ra'zak. They were looking for a stone of the same description. During that time, in the middle of the night the stone wobbles and out stumbled a dragon. He called the dragon Saphira. She quickly grew from being the size of a cat to the size of a small house. The Ra'zak found out that the stone belonged to Eragon and Garrow. So they came to their house and burnt it down trying to find out where the egg was. Garrow was killed in the struggle. Eragon, Saphira and Brom the Story Teller who turned out to be another dragon rider whose dragon was killed while fighting Galbatorix, evil king of the empire of Alagaesia. They travel across Alagaesia but Brom was killed in a struggle against the Ra'zak while trying to rescue the elf Arya who was poisoned by the shade Durza , with the help of Murtagh a human who they met on the way. They manage to the Varden, one of the only known place with the cure to the poison, and in time for the battle of Farthen dure in which Eragon manages to kill Durza and gets injured in the battle, and healed by the mourning sage, who tells him to complete his training in Du Weldenvarden, the forest of the elves.

This book was written by Christopher Paolini, I give it a rating of 9.99999999999999 out of 10.

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