Now, there are some things I like about the series, or more accurately, things I convinced myself it’s okay to like, because, on occasion, Paolini messes up his own story, and we get the occasional character development. Morzan’s dead by the time the books start, but hey, after those shitty prequels George Lucas gave us, I’ll take Darth Vader wherever I can get him. And that’s probably why my favorite character would be Morzan, the Darth Vader of the series. That’s probably it, now that I think about it. Then again, maybe the only reason I like this series is because I’m a whore for anything Star Wars. The elves, for being the supposed perfect race, are riddled with flaws that aren’t meant to be there, I have no idea what Paolini wants me to take as the religion of the world, the dwarves exist for the sake of existing, and the overall message seems to be something along the lines of “evil is evil and good is good, just because Paolini says so.”
I feel the same way about her as I do most politicians: pretty speech giver, but completely full of shit. Nasuada is shoved up on a pedestal she doesn’t deserve to be on, because she sucks as a leader. I loathe Eragon, Arya, and Saphira I think they’re pretentious assholes.
Like, you could find essays and various blog posts all over the internet on why The Inheritance Cycle is trite, and despite the fact that I agree with just about every possible reason people have to hate the books, I still love them. And this just makes me so confused, because every time I read anything in the books it pisses me right the hell off. I would go so far as to say that it’s one of my favorite series ever. No series has ever left me so ambivalent. Spoilers and a trigger warning for rape after the jump.
So now that it’s out, I might as well get started. The last book of the series recently came out this month-and about time too, as we’ve only been waiting three years for the damn thing-and I have been planning to do a review of the series for a while now. Yeah, I’ve recently come to conclusion that Inheritance Cycle sucks about as much as the title of this post.
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