I've read quite a few 800+ books this year, and the majority of them I've felt could have been trimmed by a couple hundred pages, but by the time that I got to the end of this one I was angry that the book was over and I didn't have a follow up novel to launch into right away. The narrative is packed full of twists that always felt organic and never felt like the kind of thing included only for shock value or to prolong the story. Reader, I could not have been more wrong. I was convinced that Paolini was pacing the book in such a way that over four hundred pages would be rendered useless. There was also a moment at the beginning of this story where I wasn't really sure where the narrative could be going. That said within the opening chapters I was immediately hooked, invested in the book and our main character in a way that hasn't happened nearly as often this year as I would have liked. I had vague memories of Eragon from my youth, a series that I never finished and it wouldn't have been the first time this year that I'd been burned by Tor, a book as long as this one. I'm going to be very honest here, I didn't really think I was going to like this book as much as I did.
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