Eragon by Christopher Paolini

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Title: Eragon
Author : Christopher Paolini
Pages: 730
Series: The Inheritance Series

Dragon Riders were popular in the land in keeping peace until one rider named Galbatorix, thirsty for power killed all the riders and their dragons who did not ally with him. He became the the King and kept three dragon eggs to hatch. But it never chose to hatch until an egg was rescued from his possession and hatched under the human touch. Eragon became the rider that the dragon has chosen, resurrecting the days of the dragon riders.

My thoughts on this book:

If you want adventure on travelling, this is the book for you. It spent a great deal of pages on his travel to the Varden. This is the first time that I appreciated a movie over the book. It was interesting, yes, but didn't put me on the edge of my seat. It was a drag reading this book because it lacked the adventure that I was expecting from Eragon. Pity, I bought Brisngr and Eldest. So I have to keep reading this series. There are so many things that hinder me in enjoying reading Eragon. One of them are the terms and the odd names and places. I know that the author has created these ancient language to make it believable, nevertheless, I didn't appreciate it. It was a bottleneck for me. It was so hard to memorize, and I keep on checking out who's who, and the maps.

Also, the author's descriptions was not easy to make up in one's imagination, if you know what I mean. I ended up skipping and reading past some of the narratives . I just want it to get over with. That's how I felt when I read this book. It didn't capture my thirst to read. I even lost interest at times that's why I tarried in completing this book. Bah! The movie was great, I reckon!

Overall, I give it three stars out of five.

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Title: The Wizard’s First Rule

Author: Terry Goodkind

Series : Sword of Truth

Pages: 836 pages

The protagonist Richard Cypher, the grandson of the remaining wizard ~ whose name was forgotten, is the seeker. The wizard was the only one who can name a seeker but hiding his identity, he befriended Richard Cypher, guide and silently protect him until Richard’s father was murdered. Richard met a lady in the woods who, he didn’t know is the mother confessor Khalan. Khalan Amnell traveled from Midlands to Westland to look for the seeker who can help her save Midlands by defeating Darken Rahl, but first she needed to find the wizard to have him name a seeker. And that was where the story revolved.

Warning: This review contains spoiler!


My thoughts on this book :

This is the 1^st book of the Sword of Truth series that was creatively written by Terry Goodkind. I was told by my colleague that this is a good series, as from the book created the TV series The Legend of the Seeker. So, I hunted the first book and took me two weeks to find it. This was an interesting read and the story line and plots were very good. But there was a part that I got bored, that was when Richard and Khalan were traveling to Midlands and the hint of their affection for each other.

Then I got surprised when Richard was captured by a Mord-Sith ~ this was the part that put me on the edge of the seat. I initially thought that the scene was kinda odd and that the story can go on without it but when I finished the episode with the Mord-Sith, I was pondering how clever the author was. It made me felt the pain, too. I was so livid and was in torment and there were times I wanted to throw my book but hell, no! I love my book! So I read on ~ and the story became very fast and furious! I was amazed with the monsters, dragons, characters and twist in the story.

I was so satisfied with the book; I tried to watch the TV series. Yuck! The actors were not near to how Terry Goodkind has described the characters, so no for the TV series!

Anyway, I recommend this Wizard's First Rule. Go and get it! Tell me what the rule is~ I seemed to forgot!