PrincessReviews

Title: Eragon Author: Christopher Paolini Series: The Inheritance Cycle, book 1 About the Author (Goodreads): Christopher Paolini was born in Southern California and has lived most of his life in Paradise Valley, Montana. He published his first novel,  Eragon ,  in 2003 at the age of nineteen, and quickly became a publishing phenomenon. His Inheritance Cycle— Eragon  and its three sequels—have sold nearly 40 million copies worldwide.  To Sleep in a Sea of Stars   is his first adult novel. Book Summary (Goodreads): One boy... One dragon... A world of adventure. When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. ...

Legon Awakening by Nicholas Taylor. I received this as a free kindle download. This is the story of Legon and his sister Sasha who are forced from their small mountain village into a world of magic and dragons. I would not recommend this to readers with weak stomachs because of the detailed violence. People are not just killed, their demise is medically detailed with amounts of blood and which tendons are involved. It sounded slightly clinical in the details. Like someone who had medical training wrote those parts. That said, the world is well thought out and the author knows it well. Although I didn’t need to know every little detail as sometimes described relating to the mechanics of some of the magic. The characters’ language was a bit too modern. There was too much modern slang in it and made the story sometimes sound foolish. The language was easy to follow but like one reviewer said, why were they “fist bumping” with elves and calling themselves “hot” when they had on nice cloth...