[quote=@Rtron] ? I thought they were pretty solid books, all things considered. [/quote] [quote=@Mardox] Dragon-slaying, BAH HUMBUG! Mind if I ask your issues with the series? [/quote] I'm inclined to agree with Dawnscroll, because, um... [hider=Some spoilers, naturally] IIRC: [list] [*]Lol @ Solembum (or however you spell the weird, shape-shifting cat-thing's name) [*]The story with Galbatorix struck me as cheesy [*]The weird girl (Angela, I think?) was weird and seemingly there for no plot reasons. [*]Saphira was exactly the sort of overprotective mother figure that I hate in stories of all forms. [*]The movie just struck me as so hilariously bad...maybe it's just how the wraith and Galbatorix looked, but something made me laugh the whole way through [*]Some plot twists (there's a giant, secret trove of dragon eggs!) had zero foreshadowing and just came out of nowhere simply to peddle the plot along [*]The secret name of the magic language that makes Eragon into a god was just...on some old stone tablet? That Galbatorix dug up somewhere? REALLY? Christopher Paolini (or whatever the author's name is) had the potential for something epic here, but it was just...that simple? And they had talked about it so much throughout the books... [/list] [/hider] To balance out that rant with some rare positivism, I really liked the Urgals. Everything about the Urgals as a race and their contribution to the story was compelling, but beyond that the only characters I really liked were the old elf and his similarly decrepit dragon. Can't even remember their names though, it's been a while :/ Throughout much of the books I thought the story was mediocre to good, but at the end I kind of had an epiphany in which I realized all of those things I just listed, and in reflection I kind of tore the series to shreds in my mind for a day or two before concluding that it was overrated.