Back of the book blurb

[kippurbird]

Here is the official blurb for Inheritance. Shall we looksie? (torylltales already gave their two cents on antishurtugal this is mine)


Not so very long ago, Eragon—Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider—was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest.

Nine months to a year, I think considering that Horst's wife is pregnant and still hasn't given birth yet. Yeah. That's not very long. Saphira was only a "blue stone" oh god, yes. Wouldn't it have been better just to have said a blue egg? Though the entire thing is stupid. Also she was only in the forest for about a day. Eragon found the egg right away. This makes it sound like she hung out in the forest for years waiting to be found.

Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders.

Which one? XD I mean you've got the elves, the dwarves, the Varden, the people in the Empire, the urgals, the folks from Sudra, the weird Emo Chicken People, the werecats. That's at least eight civilizations going on there. So, which is the lucky one and which ones get the shit end of the stick. READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT!

Actually that might be interesting to read. Eragon having to choose which civilization survives and which ones are utterly destroyed. Definitely a moral conflict going on there. How do you choose something like that?

Beyond that, it's one of the most cliche lines ever.

Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, but they have also brought heartbreaking loss.

Okay, yes. Months. It should be years. Why? Because months shouldn't be enough to train you up to do anything required to do the work that Eragon is doing. He needs to learn - needed to learn - how to become a master of the sword (which was what in the books, two months?) and a spell caster (which was what another four months) things that require years of training for normal people. And yet he's somehow managed to get a lifetime's worth of training or at least training that he should have started very young and still be working on mastering in a few short months.

I think years would be more impressive. It would make it sound like it was something he was working for his entire life towards. I mean, look at say Harry Potter or Percy Jackson. Their books took place over several years - Potter over seven years and Jackson over five years. - which explored their training and fighting the small battles to get them ready for the big ones. This isn't to say that I would like to have these books sprawl out any more than they already have, but at least put him at a respectable learned level.

As for heartbreaking loss? Eragon gets over that rather quickly, why shouldn't we?


And still, the real battle lies ahead: they must confront Galbatorix.

Finally.

When they do, they will have to be strong enough to defeat him. And if they cannot, no one can. There will be no second chances.

Maybe they should wait until their dragon and rider isn't half trained then? Oh wait, they can't. Galbatorix is gunning for them. Which is smart of him, it should be easier to kill the rider before he knows what he's doing. Sadly that won't happen with Eragon because he's just that special.

Why can't there be second chances? There is that green egg out there. They could always try again with that one. I mean, hey, it worked with Eragon right?

The Rider and his dragon have come further than anyone dared to hope.

Thanks to an incredibly lazy GM and a munchkin player! :D

But can they topple the evil king and restore justice to Alagaësia?

Yes.

What? We all know it's true. Otherwise what would be the point? How is a better question. At least that's something of a mystery.

And if so, at what cost?

Unfortunately not Eragon's life. Probably Murtagh's.Though I'm sure at the end there will be some sort of epilogue about Eragon and Arya leaving together with their dragons and talk of the end of the time of Dragon Riders, much like there was in the Lord of the Rings and the end of the Third Age.

This is the much-anticipated, astonishing conclusion to the worldwide bestselling Inheritance cycle.

Yay.

Comments

[dove-cg.livejournal.com]

To be fair, if it was written by a copy-editer, they might never have read the prior books and thus it is as generic as they can get based on some general information they've been given. If Paolini wrote it, well, that's a different story.

Which one? XD I mean you've got the elves, the dwarves, the Varden, the people in the Empire, the urgals, the folks from Sudra, the weird Emo Chicken People, the werecats. That's at least eight civilizations going on there. So, which is the lucky one and which ones get the shit end of the stick. READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT!

Actually that might be interesting to read. Eragon having to choose which civilization survives and which ones are utterly destroyed. Definitely a moral conflict going on there. How do you choose something like that?

Didn't you know? Everything in Algaesia, despite obvious differences, is one culture and Galby's is another. So Galby's will be destroyed and everything else will be saved. YAY! >:}

But you're right, that would be a really interesting conflict if Eragon had to choose who would survive and who would be destroyed. How do you choose that sort of thing? I'd assume politics and personal preference, namely your own culture, would factor in heavily. Plus friendships and family. Actually, I think the choosing might end up easier in the short term. It's dealing with your choices for the rest of your life that would be hard. How do you reassure yourself that you did the right thing? That you chose the right people? Do you mourn for the people who were lost? I guess it also depends on what sort of destruction we're talking about (way of life versus outright annihilation.)

A pity the actual book won't be as interesting as that. :I

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

To be fair, if it was written by a copy-editer, they might never have read the prior books and thus it is as generic as they can get based on some general information they've been given.

Point. I can still mock it.

[wayoffbase.livejournal.com]

This is the much-anticipated, astonishing conclusion to the worldwide bestselling Inheritance cycle.

Rocks fall and everyone dies?

[charlottehywd.livejournal.com]

Except hopefully Sloan. Poor man has suffered enough.

[torylltales.livejournal.com]

Hopefully, Sloan will be the one hurling the rocks.

[charlottehywd.livejournal.com]

I like that story already!

[kjtaylor.livejournal.com]

But - at - what - cost?

Well, at least they're not trying to track down the one teeny tiny magical artefact that can stop the End of the World, because it really is that easy to bring an entire universe to an end (or stop it coming to an end, whichever).

And at least they're not desperately trying to stop the Dark Lord from rising again and Taking Over/Destroying the World.

Actually, I'm intending to write a future story somewhere along those lines. The big scary monster/god thing was destroyed long ago, and now his followers are reassembling his bones in the hopes of bringing him back, and the protagonists try to stop it.

But when they inevitably fail and the giant monstrous whosis does indeed come back to life, it turns out that the whole story may never have been a good vs evil struggle after all! Surprise!

That should be fun to write.

Hey Kippur.

[(Anonymous)]

Have you read _The Storm Dragons?_ It's an Inheritance fanfic which is really long, really detailed, and /really/ awesome.

-Blue

Re: Hey Kippur.

[kjtaylor.livejournal.com]

You mean, the fanfic I wrote? Thanks!

Re: Hey Kippur.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Hahha. I saw that, not recognizing the title, but thought to myself, I bet it's something you wrote.