Brisinger is the exciting and well written third book in the Inheritance cycle. It follows Eragon and Eldest, the first two books of the cycle.
Eragon is the first book and introduces us to Eragon, a teenage boy who lives with his Uncle Garrow and cousin Roran on a farm in Palancar Valley, in Algaesia. While hunting he finds a strange blue stone that turns out to be a dragon egg. It hatches and brings trouble to Palancar. The Ra'zac, disgusting beetle people, arrive and kill Eragon's uncle. Eragon is forced to flee with Brom, the village story teller, who tells Eragon that he is now a dragon rider. Brom teaches Eragon magic skills as they travel and Eragon and Saphira, Eragon’s dragon, begin to bond. The Ra'zac track them down and kill Brom, but Eragon is saved by a mysterious boy named Murtagh, who helps him rescue an elf named Arya from a shade, which is an evil sorcerer. They go to the Varden, a resistance group against the evil King Galbatorix, but are attacked by the shade's minions. Eragon kills the shade in the battle and becomes Eragon Shadeslayer.
Eldest is the next book in the cycle and begins with the leader of the Varden dying and Murtagh and two powerful Varden sorcerers disappearing. Roran and the other villagers back in Palancar fight the king's army that is now attacking in order to take Roran hostage. The villagers stick with him though and they escape the village and head south towards Surda, a free country not under the king's rule. Eragon goes with his dwarf friend and Arya to the elves' forest to train to be a more powerful dragon rider. In his stay in the forest Eragon learns many new things and has to use them when an urgent call for help comes from Surda and the Varden. He rushes to help them and gets caught in a huge battle against the king's army. Murtagh and the twins show up fighting for the other side, kill the dwarf king, and take Eragon’s magic sword.
In the beginning of Brisingr Eragon and Roran kill the Ra'zac for revenge and to save Roran's fiancee, Katrina. They then rejoin the Varden in Surda and fight off attack after attack from the king. Eragon struggles to find a fitting sword and battles Murtagh though Murtagh is fighting against his will. He is being controlled by Galbatorix and is much more powerful than Eragon because the king is supporting him with his captured dragon spirits. Eragon goes to help his friend become the new king of the dwarves and rushes to the elf forest to see if he can get a new sword. He has to persuade an ancient tree that was once an elf to give him the precious metal that he needs for the new sword. He also must make the sword himself with the elf smith's instructions because she swore that she would never make another magic sword after how Galbatorix had used one of her swords. Eragon then rushed to a battle at Feinstar, a settlement controlled by the king, while his elf teacher, the last of the old dragon riders, went to another battle in the north. Eragon got there just in time and helped the Varden take the city, but both his teacher and his teacher’s dragon were killed in battle in the north. Eragon had a gem with his teacher's dragon Gleader's soul inside that Gleader had given him before they parted.
The Inheritance cycle is a great series and the author wrote his best book of the series with Brisingr, I recommend it to anyone, the reason I started reading the series was because it was recommended to me.
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I really would like to read Brisingr since I have read both Eragon and Eldest, and Christopher Paolini is a phenomenal author. Fantasy books really are special, considering they truly do take the reader to different places. I was addicted to Eragon’s adventures the first time I opened Eragon. After that I couldn’t get enough of Eragon’s story, but for some reason I just haven’t gotten along to reading Brisingr. The only question I have concerning Brisingr is how Eragon’s and Arya’s relationship is coming along, because anybody reading The Inheritance Cycle knows Eragon has fallen in love with Arya but Eragon knows he and Arya should not be together.
ReplyDeleteDominic! That is a really good book, though rather surprising because it takes place over a short span of time. So for not giving away details...I feel so rushed for the book. It's hard to stay in one place and look at the scenery and plan what to do because every minute seems better spent at another place. I ran out of breath (literally) upon finishing it, but at least there are a few short breaks along the journey. It's not all manly action--some softer stuff that makes the reader happy as opposed to "that feeling" from the first two books. Yes, there is a less harsh love, both for Arya, Saphira (rather painful, though), and Roran-Katrina. So, the suspense, that "oh, I won't make it in time" feeling is almost balanced out by stuff (like love and allies) that make Eragon happier.
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