Inheritance Cycle book 3: Brisingr

[Jessika]

Natalia and I are trying to finish out some series on our TBRs this year. We're going to start Eragon in March if anyone else is interested in joining us.

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[Natália]

This has been a slow read for me, because I'm currently juggling 7 books at the same time, but I'm quickly catching up to what I already know about this world and this story (since this is a re-read, though it has been years) and now I think I'll go way faster. I'm currently at chapter 7.

[Jessika]

No problem, I kinda had the same issue with reading too many books at once. Not sure exactly what chapter, but I'm about halfway through. Some of it seems familiar now, but I still dont remember much...

[Natália]

I'm only 100 pages left and now I'm remembering things from book 2 and some of the surprises are now pretty obvious to me (I mean, they are in everybody's face!). Now that I put my mind to it, things are speeding up and pretty soon I'll be picking up Eldest.

[Jessika]

Sounds good, I plan on finishing Eragon this weekend. I'm enjoying it more this time around. Apparently, last time, I only gave it 2 stars!

[Natália]

I'm done with book 1, but I'll start Eldest Monday so I have the weekend to try and plow through some of the other books I'm currently reading and put aside to finish Eragon. I'm almost done with 2 of them, so I might focus on them.

[Jessika]

Just finished Eragon today. The first 1/3 of the book seemed vaguely familiar to me, but nothing in the last 2/3rds was at all familiar. I'm wondering if younger-me DNF'd it the first go around. On to book #2!

[Natália]

I'm almost half-way through to the book and while I remember younger me thinking it was a little slow, this time around I didn't think so at all. I'm finding that I was right about the author's writing - it's more mature in this second book and the world development is more complex than I thought. I remember what happens towards the end, but I'm excited to get there and read it again.

[Jessika]

I'm very behind! I didn't touch a book all week. I'll try to get a big chunk read this weekend, but probably won't finish. If you have other books to catch up on, feel free!

[Natália]

I'm also behind in this! I'm about 58% or something, and I'm usually reading it on the Kindle app on my phone when I have a break at work, so my pace have slowed down a lot. But I think in another week or so I can finish it!

[Jessika]

I finished today. I gave it 3.5/5 stars in my own head, but gave it the benefit of the doubt on GR and rated it 4 stars. I thought the pacing was pretty good in this one.

In regards to the twist at the end:
(view spoiler)[I kept thinking, "Why does Eragon always assume Murtagh is dead? Did the narration say he was dead? Did I miss something?" I had thought it seemed more likely that he was captured. So I wasn't necessarily surprised to have him return at the end, but I didn't expect him to be the enemy Rider! (hide spoiler)]

I'm gonna catch up on some other reading and will plan on starting on 4/16.

[Natália]

Now I'm the one behind hahaha I can't get past all that training in Ellesmera, virtually nothing happens except Eragon learning new stuff (and us getting some infodump about the world, the magic and everything about the riders), Arya being kind of bitchy with Eragon and him going after her like a stray puppy. This middle part only picks up the rhythm in Ronan or Nasuada's POV (love ther, btw). The writing and the whole world building is indeed better, and although I know the ending to this one and the plot twist, since I've read it before, I'm still excited for the final scenes and then on to Brisingir (FINALLY!)

[Jessika]

Just finished Brisingr today. Overall, I enjoyed it, it had some good moments, but I felt like there was a lot of travel here, do this, fight them, travel there, repeat. The revelations toward the end of the book really captured my interest, though, and I'm eager to see how the villain will be defeated in the last book!

[Natália]

Jessika wrote: "Just finished Brisingr today. Overall, I enjoyed it, it had some good moments, but I felt like there was a lot of travel here, do this, fight them, travel there, repeat. The revelations toward the ..."

I finished Eldest a while ago, but couldn't come here to update. I liked it, you could definitely see Paolini's development as a writer, but pratically half of the book was dedicated to Eragon's training and describing Ellesmera, and him chasing after Arya. It was kind of boring and slow, and nothing was really happening. Roran's and Nasuada's chapters were more exciting, but there were few of them to make up for Eragon's. The final battle and the plot twist at the end were exciting. So far I'm enjoying Brisingir more, I am 1/3 in, so let's see how it progresses.

[Jessika]

I finished Inheritance! Overall, I liked it and I liked the series. But my biggest complaint with this book specifically is that it literally could have wrapped up 100 pages sooner. Longer doesn't always mean better!

How's your progress coming?

[Natália]

Ugh,I'm stuck in Brisingr. I'm about halfway through, but I can't seem to get past that. I had a pretty bad reading slump and am only now coming out of it, so I'm trying to read other books to then come back to it and finally finish the series!

[Jessika]

Natália wrote: "Ugh,I'm stuck in Brisingr. I'm about halfway through, but I can't seem to get past that. I had a pretty bad reading slump and am only now coming out of it, so I'm trying to read other books to then..."

You can do it!! I was in a big reading slump most of May and June, but have already finished 4 books this month. Hang in there!