Great packaging. No damage. Excellent book!!

I love the rich world and characters that Christopher Paolini brings to the table with this amazing installment in the Inheritance Cycle. Yet again, he paints a vivid story that brings you along for a fantastical ride.

What I look for, when I pick up a fantasy fiction based on elves, dwarves and humans, is how the author has striven to reinvent the races, their relationships, the magic and creatures of the realm, but all within some established conventions and rules (ie: dwarves live in mountains, elves forests, etc). What particularly interests me is how an author breaks barriers in formulating the governing rules of magic, how it is discovered, learned, and the system of laws the creatures of the realm must follow in order to harnest and manipulate this magic. It is this governing system behind the use of magic, reinvented by the author that either draws me or repels me to a fiction. Of this, Paolini has done a fantastic work. What might have appeared boring and dragging to certain impatient readers of Eragon's training with the elves, to me were the most delightful passages of the book. This book tells me that the author has a theory in his mind, a fresh idea of how magic SHOULD be, how it SHOULD be explained, to on one hand fit the rules and conventions we've come to be familiar with, and on the other hand offer a better, a more revelational, perhaps you can even say a scientific explanation to magic, one that makes people go "oh.. that makes sense" that they're crying to share with the rest of the fantasy lovers of the world. To slowly nurture his theory on magic into existence, to share it with us by imbuing it within the story of a hero inside a spellbinding world full of skillfully illustrated settings and characters, is Paolini's greatest triumph. I would agree, that the individual subplots may be a little cliche (only when treated individually, not together), and that some elven names sound strikingly familiar (which I've actually come to appreciate as it allowed me to quickly envision what those names represented), but they have been skillfully woven together to an original story, backed by breathtaking setting, characterization, and most importantly such an original, beautiful and convincing reinvention of the governing laws of magic, psychic bonds, and the philosophies that accompany them. So far, Paolini's creation earns 5 stars from me, it has been a more enjoyable, and more personal read than Lord of the Rings. I will now eagerly turn to the third book.

So hard to put down. The storylines for the different characters are engrossing. When the next chapter didn’t continue with the story in the previous, I was sort of disappointed. But as soon as I got into the continuing adventures of the other characters, I wanted to see what was going to happen with them. All in all a very well written book. I can’t wait to read the next one.

This is the 2nd book of the Eragon series. I love these coming of age novels. He is still a dumb boy but much less than the 1st book and by the end he has turned into a remarkable warrior. His dragon doesn’t need to safe him every chapter from doom or his own foolishness. The book is a steady pace with conflict, love, and adventure. I actually enjoy the traveling across the world part. The cast is diverse, lovable and well written. Just downloaded the 3rd book and Ill start on this now.

Arrived in perfect condition and was a really great book to read can’t wait to receive my next one!

I read this book years ago and found my old copy all worn out so I decided to get a replacement for my collection. This one matches how the old one was originally. A fun adventure for middle school, high school age, or anybody that loves a fantasy adventure.

This book went back and forth between Eragon's and Roran's storylines. I really loved reading about Roran, he has become a very interesting part of this series. I am certainly glad I read on kindle. The teenager that (amazingly) wrote this, has a much more extensive vocabulary than I do. I often had to look up definitions of words. That actually was sort of a negative. The meanings of a lot of those words would easily have been understood better by more readers if the vocabulary had been simplified. The characters in this series are so well written. They are not carbon copies of one another. There is strong attention to detail, but the book is not redundant. I definitely recommend this book!