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Rank the books in the Inheritance cycle!

posted 10 years ago by she-escapes
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I kind of feel like the series got worse as it went along… so I'm curious to see how others would rank the books.

1. Eragon
2. Eldest
3. Brisingr
4. Inheritance

My ranking simply follows the release order of the books. I actually started reading the series when I was a teenager. I was really caught up in the world of fantasy as it also happened to be around the time that The Lord of the Rings was released in cinemas. I understand that YA authors often develop their writing styles as a series goes on (e.g. JK Rowling)… but I feel like this wasn't the case for Paolini. He seemed to value quantity over quality.

As the series went on, I found that I was really just losing interest in the characters. His writing was far too descriptive - but not in an exciting, Tolkien-esque way - and a lot of the characters seemed to be filler. I'm pretty sure I merely scanned the Oromis/Eragon chapters… especially the section where he just sits there looking at ants. (WHAT?!) The last book contained such heavy use of deus ex machina that I never even made it to the end. It started off as a fantastic YA fantasy series but really teetered out towards the end. Really disappointing.

[–] Capnamerica07 10 years ago

i would say

Eldest
Eragon
Brisingr
Inheritance

I Liked all the books, But i think eldest was a bit more interesting than Eragon, however I'm still really annoyed he released a "director's cut" version of Inheritance a few months after it came out.

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[–] dball-61330 8 years ago

Hmmmmm, so hard to choose! I value them all pretty much equally. But if I had to:

1. Brisingr
2. Inheritance
3. Eldest
4. Eragon

Reason being, I believe Brisingr has the greatest amount of story development. It's quite eventful and beautiful. I also love how Eragon get's to the stage where he is very relied upon by everyone and his power starts to increase once *you know who* dies. It's a shame they ruined the original movie, and ultimately, any chances of continuing the cycle :(

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[–] someonesomewhereok 8 years ago

I think Paolini whose parents are both publishers may rush his work because of that, but I think the real reason is because he accepted the first movie deal that came along and he wrote the books after with that in mind. Then the movie he wasn't involved in flopped and then he understood where his universe he created was staying(the bookshelf). He may have compromised his vision for efficiency is all I'm saying since I notice some writers tend to take more time and heart after each release of a book to polish/add more depth and character while he now had to deal with deadlines after Eragon to keep up with the movies which ended after only one.