I was really looking forward to reading this book because of the good reviews. Sometimes I have to ignore bad reviews because most every book has them. Well this book was a huge disappointment. The use of a thesaurus is so obvious that it makes me feel embarrassed. If you've ever seen that episode of "Friends" when Joey writes a recommendation letter for Monica and Chandler to adopt a baby, and every single word in his letter came from the thesaurus, THAT is was I was reminded of reading Eragon LOL. Besides that, the characters are worthless and the story is just not interesting at all. And like everyone else has said, none of it is original. There's no need to explain it all since it has been done plenty of times here. I just had to review it to give it 1 star.