Eldest, A-2

Derek Bradshaw

A-2

Eldest

Christopher Paolini

681

*****

This book is for anyone who is looking for and action packed adventure. If you like books about magic and dragons this is the book for you! You’ll get so into this book you will never want to stop reading.

This is the second book of the trilogy of Eragon. This book starts off after the battle in Farthen Dur. After defeating the shade he decides he has a lot more to learn and travels to the land of the elves. There he begins his training magic, fighting and Dragon riding. After living there for a while the give him a celebration, during this celebration he goes through an amazing transformation. The transformation changes his appearance and body. This transformation will make him as fast, strong, cunning, and have the endurance of the elves. Meanwhile Roran, Eragon’s cousin was returning home to marry the butcher’s daughter, only to find that the village was taken over by the evil king’s soldiers. In a plan to capture Eragon, king Galbatorix captures Rorans fiancée, Katrina. Roran will do anything to get her back. So Roran fought his way to Katrina.

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Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn’t exist and never shall. There is only now.

I like this passage because it says that you should live your life as it comes and be prepared for what comes.