Blog #5

I finally finished reading Brisingr by Christopher Paolini (took me long enough!) and I can't say that I liked the ending. I thought that the ending didn't really end with a big of a bang as it should have. I mean sure Eragon and Saphira's mentors die, but I think that it was pretty predictable, seeing as they were going up against the immensely powerful evil king. Also this is a hero story so it's pretty predictable that Eragon will kill the evil king not his mentors and there's a whole other book still to go. So in other words I don't think it was a big surprise that the mentors died and therefore I don't think that it was the best way to end the book. At the same time at the end/climax of the book Arya and Eragon kill another shade.I don't really like this part because I think the killing of another shade sort of demeans how Eragon killed a shade in the first book and earned the title "Shadeslayer". I think that when they kill another shade it makes it seem as if Eragon's amazing accomplishment in the first book wasn't as amazing anymore. Actually I really don't know how Paolini is going to fit everything in the last and final 4th book because there is a lot of the plot that he has yet to wrap up and tie together, so I think he has his work cut out for him. I also hope that the ending/climax of his last book in the series is much more satisfactory than the one.