Hardcover, 656 pages

Published by Roca Editorial.

ISBN:
978-84-9918-299-5
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Eragon is a teenaged boy about to enter a world of magic, dragons and wonder. While hunting in the forbidding woods of The Spine, he misses the deer he has been hunting but instead witnesses the strangest event. A bright blue, round object pops into existence before his eyes and changes his life forever.

Disappointed that he will bring no food for his family home from his days long hunt, he dares to drop by a crotchety butcher's shop to see if just maybe the butcher will find his new rock interesting enough to be traded for a winter's worth of meat. Unfortunately for Eragon, the butcher hates the Spine and is afraid of anything found within it's boarders, so he rudely dismisses him. A kind blacksmith happens by at the moment when he is being evicted and buys the meat for Eragon on the promise that he work at …

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1.5 stars - considering the author's young age at the time of writing.

When Eragon first was published, it was hyped very much - a teenage author writing a YA fantasy novel of such quality, and so on and so forth.
Reading it now for the first time ever, well past my teenage years, I really don't know how this could have gotten so big. It is exactly the kind of story you'd expect a 15-year-old fantasy reader would write: it basically is a mix-up copy/fan-fiction of the things he was reading, such as [b:The Lord of the Rings|33|The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)|J.R.R. Tolkien|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1521850178s/33.jpg|3462456], [b:The Earthsea Quartet|68041|The Earthsea Quartet (Earthsea Cycle, #1-4)|Ursula K. Le Guin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1330196610s/68041.jpg|1112741], [b:The Hobbit|5907|The Hobbit|J.R.R. Tolkien|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1372847500s/5907.jpg|1540236], maybe a bit of the [b:The Abhorsen Trilogy Box Set|47615|The Abhorsen Trilogy Box Set (Abhorsen, #1-3)|Garth Nix|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1407105785s/47615.jpg|863] and the first volumes of [b:A Song of …

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